Road Networks in the Cities on the Upper Euphrates in the Late Bronze Age. An Interdisciplinary Approach Focusing on Archaeology and Epigraphic Sources

The study of road networks provides a major insight into the origin and development of the urban setting and can help us to understand whether the builders intentionally planned the urban areas. Newly built cities are designed according to urban planning approaches, unlike older cities that have expanded progressively and spread. The article deals with the major town excavated in the Upper Euphrates valley, dating to the Late Bronze Age, analyzing the different typologies of internal city roads comparing the archaeological data with the epigraphic sources.