For centuries, there used to be an ancient canal linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Nile. However, this canal is long gone… What happened to it?
Special thanks to the fellow edutuber @Al Muqaddimah for helping me with this video’s research.
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Sources:
Ball, Egypt in the classical geographers, p.130
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007658308&view=1up&seq=40
A. J. Butler, The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion (Oxford, 1902), p. 227.
https://books.google.pt/books?id=cGdjDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007658308&view=1up&seq=40
Starthern, P. (2013) “The Venetians” p. 175
Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians
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