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The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE
The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “King's Highway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.