The Ancient Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is old but there are older canals that served its purpose!
If you want to know what happened to this amazing feat of engineering check out this video's sequel:    • What happened to The Ancient Suez Canal?  

Sound provided by Jonatan Järpehag: "Cleopatra"

Sources:
A History of the Ptolemaic Empire
https://books.google.pt/books?id=cLBh...

Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
https://books.google.pt/books?id=GixB...

The Histories
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...

Meteorology
https://books.google.pt/books?id=kJy5...

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