Evidence (Pleiades, CC BY 3.0)

exact location · approximate

Historical water — certainty tiers

reconstructed — inferred from the alignment of attested cities

schematic — presence claimed, course not

No surveyed course is drawn yet: the solid tier is reserved for survey / remote-sensing traces. Published reconstructions disagree by tens of kilometres — the dashes are the honesty.

Trade routes — attestation

textual — written record names the trade

archaeological — the objects attest it

inferred — plausible, marked as a guess

Events — dated moments

✕ battle & sack · ✹ destruction · ◆ treaty / founding

Every event states how firm its date is — middle-chronology years shift wholesale with the chronology.

Modern reference

today's rivers & coast, for orientation only