The idea was ancient, likely dating to the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret III, who envisioned and commissioned a similar project in the 19th century B.C.E. The so-called “Canal of the ...

has brought to light imposing walls from a fortress situated on Egypt's Canal of the Pharaohs, in Tell el-Maskhuta. That makes the site now one of the largest fortresses on the Nile Delta and most ...

While the Suez Canal is a more recent addition to the man-made canals across the country, its several pharaohs over many different periods connected the Red Sea with the Nile River. The Canal of ...