Istanbul is famous for straddling two continents, but the little-known Suez City in Egypt sits between Asia and Africa.

The Isthmus of Suez, once the curse of the fellahs, may ere long become a blessing to them ; for assuredly there is a rich mercantile harvest in store for Egypt since the Eastern portal has been ...

In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez, and, thanks to his good relations with ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

The Suez Canal crosses the Suez Isthmus in Egypt - a strip of land between the Mediterranean and Red Sea. The canal is 193km (120 miles) long and incorporates three natural lakes. In 2015 ...

THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...

After 10 years of construction and costs more than double the original estimate, the Suez Canal opened on Nov. 17, 1869. Stretching 101 miles across Egypt‘s Isthmus of Suez, ...

This major venture would stand up against the famous Suez and Panama canals ... with the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean at the Isthmus of Kra, Thailand. Thailand's waters are home to an ...

In 2022, an average of 1,084 ships crossed this strategic isthmus each month ... One Orpheus collided with a floating bridge in the Suez Canal's eastern lane on Wednesday. Traffic in this waterway ...

The Thai Canal, also known as the Kra Canal or Kra Isthmus Canal, is a significant ... the engineer behind the Suez Canal, showed interest, but political agreements and colonial interests ...

In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... By December 1905, yellow fever had been officially eradicated on the Isthmus. In November, 1906, Roosevelt himself visited ...