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The Suez Canal That Never Was: Ancient Egypt's Pivot to the Red Sea
Long before Napoleon, before de Lesseps, there was an ancient attempt to connect the Nile to the Red Sea — a canal that would have transformed trade centuries before the Roman Empire. This episode follows the engineers, pharaohs, and Persian kings who tried to dig a waterway from the Nile Delta to the Gulf of Suez, from the reign of Pharaoh Senusret III to the Persian conquest of Egypt and the Ptolemaic dynasty. We explore the canal's shifting routes, its political motives, and its surprising afterlife in the era of Cleopatra and the Roman annexation. Along the way, we meet the Greek…
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