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The oldest highway: between the regions of Van and Elazığ in eastern Anatolia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Veli Sevin
Veli Sevin*
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Department of History, University of Istanbul, Istanbul 34459, Turkey
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The oldest road, in the narrow sense of a built way across difficult ground, seems to be the Neolithic Sweet Track in the English Somerset Levels. But what about the oldest road, in the larger sense ofa long-distance highway with staging posts, its essential purpose in the need to administer a large empire? Here seems to be that oldest highway, astonishingly visible on the ground, as Dr Sevin's illustrations show.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 547 - 551
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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