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.

This 29 km long, paved road is a considerable achievement of ancient engineering, possibly unsurpassed elsewhere in Polynesia.

Leipzig is also situated at the intersection of the ancient roads known as the Via Regia ( King's highway ), which traversed Germanic lands in an east-west direction, and Via Imperii ( Imperial Highway ), a north-south road.

Mutley Plain lies on the route of an ancient road linking Bilburgh, a Bronze Age settlement on the coast at Sutton Pool which later formed the nucleus of the city of Plymouth, to the north.

Yushan National Park has alpine terrain, mountain ecology, forest types that vary with altitude, and remains of ancient road.

The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

For a possible etymological connection, Schuessler notes the ancient Fangyan dictionary defines yu < * lokh 裕 and lu < * lu 猷 as Eastern Qi State dialectal words meaning dào < * lûʔ 道 " road ".

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

According from the inscriptions on ancient milestones, the principal road through the island ran directly from Caralis ( Cagliari ) to Turris, a sufficient proof that the latter was a place much frequented.

It has been successfully argued that the ancient runner took the more difficult northern road because at the time of the battle there were still Persian soldiers in the south of the plain.

Edward's host followed the line of the old Roman road, which ran through an ancient forest known as the Tor Wood, over the Bannockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of Alexander III.

The silk road led staright through ancient Alexandria.

Chatham stands on the A2 road along the line of the ancient Celtic route, which was paved by the Romans, and named Watling Street by the Anglo-Saxons.

The city expanded beyond the ancient walls and sea connections were potentiated as they represented an important road network that crossed the town connecting the eastern plain with the area leading to Vietri and Naples.

The Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 edition identifies it as " an ancient village of Latium, Italy, a post station on the Via Appia, at the point where the main road was crossed by a branch from Antium.

A contemporary motorway runs not far from the ancient Roman road, the Via Augusta.

To the east of the amphitheatre an ancient road, the Via Dianae, leads north to the Pagus Dianae, on the west slopes of the Mons Tifata, a community which sprang up around the famous and ancient temple of Diana, and probably received an independent organization after the abolition of that of Capua in 211 BC.

Today a modern road built over or replacing the ancient, Leoforos Knosou, serves that function and continues south.

Kukuanaland's capital is Loo, the destination of a magnificent road from ancient times.

Preston and its surroundings have provided evidence of ancient Roman activity in the area, largely in the form of a Roman road which led to a camp at Walton-le-Dale.

Now in ruins, it was one of the largest structures in central Italy at the time, and was located outside the ancient city, across the road leading to Samnium.

File: Ostia theaterexterior. jpg | The theatre as seen from the ancient main road.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

You can relive history and follow, in fancy, the Crusaders in their quest for the Holy Grail as they sail out from Brindisi, an ancient town in the heel of Italy's boot.

Gums were extracted from quince, psyllium ( fleawort ), flax, and locust ( carob ) seeds in ancient times.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

A Tibetan swami from Palermo, Sicily, announced in Beverly Hills a newly discovered, ancient yoga discipline for ripple breathing which increased both pranha and cosmic attraction between sexes.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

View of Bursa from the hills near Uludağ | Mount Uludağ, the ancient Mysia n Uludağ | Olympus

Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

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.

Achill Island lies in the Barony of Burrishoole, in the territory of ancient Umhall ( Umhall Uactarach and Umhall Ioctarach ), that originally encompassed an area extending from the Galway / Mayo border to Achill Head in Co. Mayo.

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

The word is from the ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις ( analusis, " a breaking up ", from ana-" up, throughout " and lysis " a loosening ").

In contrast, there was an Old Text school that advocated the use of Confucian works written in ancient language ( from this comes the denomination Old Text ) that were so much more reliable.

Classical-Relating to or from ancient Roman or Greek architecture and art.

The family of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder also represents one of the few periods in ancient Roman history where the position of Emperor passed smoothly from father to son.

Gaudí incorporated many motifs of Catalan nationalism, and elements from religious mysticism and ancient poetry, into the Park.

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.