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In classical antiquity, the Via Flavia road built by the emperor Vespasian in 78 AD ran through the same area spanned by modern D21.
The city, of great age, controls a strategic pass to the south through which runs a road used since antiquity to travel between Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia.
The pictures, Mr. Ur explained, do not show the actual roads from antiquity, but signatures of where the roads were.
Across the road is the eccentric Craven Arms, which is full of antiquities, has gas lighting, log fires, stone-flagged floors and a striking heather-thatched cruck barn.
An equivalent word in Greek is ephodion ; like viaticum, the word is used in antiquity to mean "provision for a journey" (literally, "something for the road," from the prefix ἐπ-, "on" + ὁδός, "road, way") and later in Greek patristic literature for the Eucharist administered on the point of death.
The area abounds in Bronze Age antiquities such as cairns, burial mounds, and stone circles, and the Romans built several major roads through the region.
"Tsipras is the worst of them all," says Vasillis Akratos, another farmer at the road block, whose crop, the Corinthian currant, has been exported from the region since antiquity.
Because of its strategic position on the Via Maris, the ancient coastal road linking Egypt with Palestine and the lands beyond, Gaza experienced little peace in antiquity; it fell, successively, to the Israelite king David and to the Assyrians, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Persians.
