How difficult? Mountain roads and pathways reaching ancient Melid (Malatya) in south-eastern Anatolia. A reconsideration
The reconstruction of ancient road systems is one of the main topics of historical geography, but the possibility of tracing ancient routes, which formed pathways of cultural, economic and political interchange, often clashes with scanty historical and archaeological sources, especially in those cases in which even the identification of ancient toponyms remains doubtful.