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How a world without passports might look

The passport has been with us for centuries. Its earliest recorded ancestor is often traced to about 450BC, when the Persian King Artaxerxes I gave one of his subjects a letter requesting safe passage through lands beyond the Euphrates. Now, almost two and a half millennia later, the humble travel document might just be approaching the end of its useful life

Nov 13, 03:00 AM

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