Older Than an Indian Trail

One more transportation note: here is the main street of the old city, Divan Yolu Caddesi, where the trams mentioned in my previous post run:


It turns out there has been a street on exactly this alignment since Constantine's day, although if it hadn't been modernized a time or two it would by now have looked more like the main street of Ephesus:


Still, it's quite a thought: this street is more than four times as old as Broadway.