Via Egnatia

Another project of the Unit is the longer-term Via Egnatia project, which surveys a portion of the Via Egnatia for documentation and preservation.

Under Albanian Soil 2004

The Via Egnatia was a Roman military highway that was constructed ca. 130 B.C. to connect Rome with its eastern colonies.

Under Albanian Soil 2004

The first part of the Via Egnatia was the wildest and most inhospitable, for the road, unpaved but well surveyed, climbed the highlands of Candavia, tall mountains which probably hadn't changed much since well before the time of Alexander the Great.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

There is later material as well, such as an inscribed grave marker of the 4th century A.D., not to mention a Roman roadway that the excavators have suggested is part of the imperial Via Egnatia.

The Latest from Istanbul 2009

Apollonia The southern terminus of the Via Egnatia on the Adriatic coast of Macedonia.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Apollonia The southern terminus of the Via Egnatia on the Adriatic coast of Macedonia.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Though most men heading for Asia Province sailed, Caesar had decided to go by land, a distance of eight hundred miles along the Via Egnatia from Apollonia in western Macedonia to Callipolis on the Hellespont.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

I know that the tribes to the north of Macedonia are boiling from one end of the Via Egnatia to the other.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

At the end of Quinctilis he transported his hundred thousand men across the Hellespont and began to march along the narrow coastal strip of Thracian Macedonia, using the Roman engineered and built Via Egnatia.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Having elected to sail rather than go overland on the Via Egnatia, the commission arrived at Pergamum in June of the previous year.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991