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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, or Way of Horus (Middle Egyptian: ḫꜣt Ḥr, lit. 'Khet Her') was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the ...
Way of the Patriarchs (blue) with Via Maris (purple) and King's Highway (red) The Road of the Patriarchs or Way of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ הֲאָבוֹת Derech haʾAvot Lit. Way (of) the Fathers) is an ancient north–south route traversing the land of Israel and the region of Palestine. [1]
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 ...
The highway follows in part the route of the ancient Via Maris. Until the 1990s and the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from most of the Gaza Strip due to the Oslo Accords, Highway 4 extended south all the way to Rafah and the Egyptian border. Since the 1990s, the part of the highway in the Gaza Strip has been renamed as Salah al-Din Road.
The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. Main article: Via Maris Via Maris, literally Latin for "the way of the sea", [ 46 ] was an ancient highway used by the Romans and the Crusaders . [ 47 ]
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In 1440, Sultan Jaqmaq built many khans along Via Maris, among them Khan al-Tujjar, Khan el-Minya, and the khan by the Daughters of Jacob Bridge (Gesher Bnot Ya'akov/Jisr Benat Ya'kub). In 1577, the governor of Damascus sent a complaint to his superiors, that there were not enough postal horses on the route between Damascus and Egypt. In order ...
The place was first associated with the biblical forefather of the Jews, Jacob, due to a confusion.The Crusader-era nunnery of Saint James (Saint Jacques in French), from the nearby castellany of Sephet (modern-day Safed), received part of the customs paid at the ford, and since Jacques is derived from Jacob, this led to the name Jacob's Ford.