Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.

The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber.

History and legend tell of the ancient trade routes known as the Amber Road leading from the Old Prussian settlements of Kaup ( in Sambia ) and Truso ( near Elbląg-German: Elbing, near the mouth of the Vistula ) southwards to the Black and Adriatic seas.

Amber is a hard fossilized resin from ancient trees.

* In Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley Forever Amber makes an appearance after Dr Poole's release to the Facts of Life where he is sleeping under guard of two Postulants, one who is himself asleep ; the other who is ' absorbed in an ancient copy of Forever Amber.

There are several archaeological sites both in and around the town that indicate that there must have been a settlement located on the ancient Amber Road that conducted extensive trade relations with the Roman Empire.

* Weichsel is the German and Scandinavian name of the river Vistula ( Polish Wisla ) that passes Kraków and Warsaw in Poland, and once constituted the ancient Amber Road via Dniepr connected with the Silk Road

The castle, like today's city, has been inhabited for thousands of years, because it is strategically located in the center of Europe at a passage between the Carpathians and the Alps, at a very important ford used to cross the Danube river, and at an important crossing of central European ancient ( trade ) routes running from the Balkans or the Adriatic Sea to the Rhine river or the Baltic Sea, the most important route being the Amber Route.

Situated upon the trail of the ancient Amber Road, it became a center of trade and crafts.

Old Greek sources never noted any Liburnian settlement in the northern coasts, possibly because the ancient mariners had been using only outer island channels for navigation towards the beginning of the Amber Road in the north of Adriatic, evading inner seas which were ruled by Liburnian thallasocracy.

Afghanistan has been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration.

From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.

The land served as " a gateway to India, impinging on the ancient Silk Road, which carried trade from the Mediterranean to China ".

Many ancient civilizations were influenced by the Silk Road, which connected China, India, the Middle East and Europe.

* Niya – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

* Loulan – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

* Subashi – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

It was an important stop on the ancient Silk Road.

Syria is significant in the history of Christianity ; Paul was converted on the Road to Damascus and emerged as a significant figure in the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.

* An early recorded transport and trading of rubies arises in the literature on the North Silk Road of China, wherein about 200 BC rubies were carried along this ancient trackway moving westward from China.

The Tarim mummies have been found in the Tarim Basin, in the area of Loulan located along the Silk Road 200 km East of Yingpan, dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between East and West.

It is not far from the site of Nisa, the ancient capital of the Parthian Empire, and it grew on the ruins of the Silk Road city of Konjikala, which was first mentioned as a wine-producing village in 2nd century BCE and was leveled by an earthquake in 1st century BCE ( a precursor of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake ).

With the 1966 earthquake and the Soviet redevelopment afterward, very little is left of Tashkent's ancient history, including its significance as a trading point on the historic Silk Road.

* Mérida-Teabo-Peto known as Mundo Maya Road Carretera del Mundo Maya, its utilized in both " convent route " Ruta de los Conventos, and linking the ancient maya city of Mayapán and Chetumal, state capitol of Quintana Roo

The excavated ancient Royal Road is part of the complex.

* a section in Ohio followed an ancient Indian trail known as the Ridge Road

A charter of Henry II gives the name as Hestune, meaning " enclosed settlement ", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of Staines, between the ancient Roman road to Bath, and the Uxbridge Road to Oxford.

Kilburn High Road originated as an ancient trackway, part of a Celtic route between the settlements now known as Canterbury and St Albans.

The main route through the town is the High Road, which forms part of the ancient route to Waltham Abbey.

Leyton High Road, Hoe Street, Chingford Road, Chingford Mount ( passing south-north through Walthamstow and its neighbouring towns ) form part of an ancient route from London to Waltham Abbey.

Welling as a shopping area has plenty to offer such as several restaurants and take-away outlets, a range of fashion, sports, entertainment, and IT shops, computer and laptop repair shops, betting shops, charity shops, fast-food takeaways, cafés, tea shops, estate agents, banks, a post office, bakeries, bike and flower shops, pubs and barbers all lining Welling High Street ( ancient Watling Street ), Upper Wickham Lane, and Bellegrove Road and several local supermarkets, namely: Iceland, Morrison's, Shell ( petrol station ), Lidl and a well-stocked Turkish Food Centre ( TFC ).

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.

The genesis of chemistry can be traced to the widely observed phenomenon of burning that led to metallurgy — the art and science of processing ores to get metals ( e. g. metallurgy in ancient India ).

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

Some Biblical scholars interpret Genesis 19: 5 as indicating that homosexual activity led to the destruction of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Similarly, the ancient metaphysical and unfalsifiable idea of the existence of atoms has led to corresponding falsifiable modern theories.

This changed the course of science in history, from a merely contemplative state, as it was found in ancient and medieval ages, to a practical, inventive state-that would have eventually led to the inventions that made possible the Industrial Revolutions of the following centuries.

: Bopp's researches, carried with wonderful penetration into the most minute and almost microscopical details of linguistic phenomena, have led to the opening up of a wide and distant view into the original seats, the closer or more distant affinity, and the tenets, practices and domestic usages of the ancient Indo-European nations, and the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication.

Instead, the migration led to the establishment of a long-lived Celtic territory in central Anatolia, which included the eastern part of ancient Phrygia, a territory that became known as Galatia.

He used his relationship with his Greek favorite Antinous to underline his philhellenism and led to the creation of one of the most popular cults of ancient times.

22 – 35 ) Fanciful though it might seem, the account has led ancient and modern scholars to infer that he did not play the lyre, or that he was not professionally trained, otherwise he would have been presented with a lyre instead.

In the mid-19th century, persecution in Europe led to the creation of the Zionist movement, which was able to win international support for a Jewish-majority state on the site of the ancient kingdoms.

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

In April 2006 a team led by Joe Thornton, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, using techniques for resurrecting ancient genes, reconstructed the evolution of an apparently irreducibly complex molecular system.

Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth, who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.

Philology's interest in ancient languages led to the study of what were, in the 18th century, " exotic " languages, for the light they could cast on problems in understanding and deciphering the origins of older texts.

In Ancient Rome and throughout Italy, the ancient sanctuaries of Ceres and Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites.

The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 BC, was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

The word “ pear ”, or its equivalent, occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavic and other dialects, differing appellations, still referring to the same thing, are found — a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic.

Occasional ancient battles took place along the Persian Gulf coastlines, between the Sassanid Persian empire and the Lakhmid Kingdom, the most prominent of which was the invasion led by Shapur II against the Lakhmids, leading to Lakhmids ' defeat, and advancement into Arabia, along the southern shore lines.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.