Via Hadriana

The Via Hadriana was a Roman Road in Egypt that ran from the Nile to Berenice on the Red Sea.
It was completed by Hadrian in 137 CE.

The road started at Antinopolis on the Nile, and ran to the Red Sea port of Berenice.
Travellers went by night in Camel Caravans which sheltered during the day in fortified watering holes called Hydreumata.
In the opposite direction, Goods from the East were disembarked at Berenice and then transported across the Eastern Desert by the Via Hadriana, to reach the Nile at Antinopolis.
The Goods were then reloaded onto river vessels and taken to Alexandria for shipment to Rome and elsewhere.
This route was slightly quicker than the older Coptos to Berenice Roman Road.

This was another Roman Road that ran from the Phorphyry Quarry in the Eastern Desert to Maximianopolis on the Nile, and also used Hydreumata.
It was used to transport Porphyry Marble from the Porphyry Mountain.

Berenice