Via Maris
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Vinony's link graph records 179 inbound references to Via Maris, and connects out to King's Highway, Turkey and Egypt.
It sits within the topics Ancient Israel and Judah, Ancient Near East and Ancient roads and tracks.
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Encyclopedic overview
The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE Jezreel Valley with modern road following the route of Via Maris in foreground
Via Maris (a Latin phrase meaning 'road of the sea') was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Turkey and Syria. Today, Via Maris is a historic road that runs in part along the Israeli Mediterranean coast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Via Maris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.