 Via Maris

Via Maris is one modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.In Latin, "Via Maris" means "way of the sea", a translation of the Greek ὁδὸν θαλάσσης found in of the Septuagint.