Via Maris

…a strategic site on the Via Maris, the historic road that ran largely along the Palestine coast. Ruins found at the site date back to the Late Bronze Age (1500–1200 bc), and Dor is mentioned in Egyptian texts of the 11th century. It was an administrative division (Hebrew napha, or…

…a key section of the Via Maris, the ancient route from Egypt to the Fertile Crescent (the relatively well-watered lands arcing northeastward around the Syrian Desert, from Palestine on the west to the Tigris-Euphrates valley on the east), the Plain of Sharon has been inhabited since remote antiquity. Caves with…