What happened to The Ancient Suez Canal?

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 ‪@AlMuqaddimahYT‬ for helping me with this video's research.

Sound provided by:
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Andreas Waldetoft "Saladin Arrives At Jerusalem"

Sources:
Ball, Egypt in the classical geographers, p.130

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...

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=cGdj...

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...

Starthern, P. (2013) "The Venetians" p. 175

Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians

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