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Oklahoman asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Did ancient cities use street signs?

By ancient, I mean ones during Bible times - such as the Greeks, Romans, etc.

Did they use street signs and street names in their cities?

Or was everything in relation to a town center, market, or other landmark?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Amost all travel was by foot along pathways. Only the very wealthy had horses or carriages. People rarely ventured more than a few blocks from their hut or farm... unless you were a soldier. They really had no place to go. The daily routine was sleep, eat. work, eat, sleep. So, streets as we know them really did not exist until horse and carriage was more common for the common man . Then they were made with stone or hay was thrown down to keep horses from getting mired in mud.

  • 1 decade ago

    i really don't think so,how then did thry give dir.well if a stranger ask,you see the house on the left corner thats mr. bell, just turn left at mr.bell's house and hes the 3rd house on rught,thus bell st.or rd.its usualy name after the first people on the corner or owner of mt. property,thats it.....THE"IS"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    from what I have heard, no, because they saw no use of it. When naming an important site, however, they carved the name or diagram into stone.

    Source(s): old history books
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    the sun placement

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  • edie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    they probably etched them in stone, with either names or drawings.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well nothing has been found so it might not be true.

  • 1 decade ago

    sometimes they did when needed.

  • 1 decade ago

    umm no?

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