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    The Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal, is the forerunner of the Suez Canal, constructed in ancient times and...
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    Lake Timsah (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
    waters from the Red Sea, and became part of the Suez Canal. Lake Timsah lies within a depression that spans the isthmus between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean...
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    Wadi Tumilat (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    to the east. The Canal of the Pharaohs was built there. A little water still flows along the wadi. The current Sweet Water Canal also flows along the wadi...
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    Dynasty of Egypt) may have constructed the ancient canal, the Canal of the Pharaohs, joining the Nile with the Red Sea (1897–1839 BCE), when an irrigation...
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    Bonaparte used this time of rest to visit Suez and see with his own eyes the possibility of a canal (known as the Canal of the Pharaohs) said to have been cut...
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  • later with the opening of the Canal of the Pharaohs. Amenhotep III - Pharaoh of Egypt. "Amenhotep III, the Great Hor". Archived from the original on...
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    probably part of the Canal of the Pharaohs: Ptolemy II is credited by some[who?] for being the first to solve the problem of keeping the Nile free of salt water...
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    commemorating the opening of the "Canal of the Pharaohs" between the Nile and the Bitter Lakes. One of the best preserved of these monuments was a stele of pink...
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    Necho II (redirect from Pharaoh-Neco)
    Chapman Barker. p447–448 Redmount, Carol A. "The Wadi Tumilat and the "Canal of the Pharaohs"" Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April ...
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    (1995). "The Wadi Tumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'." Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 54, 127–35. Segert, Stanislav. (1994). "Crossing the Waters:...
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  • The following is a list of interoceanic canals, that is, canals or canal proposals, which form waterways for traffic to connect one ocean to another. List...
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    the Red Sea region, possible via ship-borne rats if the Canal of the Pharaohs was still open. The plague could have originated in commercial links with...
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    Netherlands (approximate date). Caliph al-Mansur orders the closing of the Canal of the Pharaohs (Egypt). The only remaining land routes to transship camel caravans'...
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  • Pithom (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    built for the biblical Pharaoh of the oppression by the forced labour of the Israelites. The other city was Pi-Ramesses. The Septuagint adds a third...
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    on the east bank of the Nile, and near the commencement of the Canal of the Pharaohs connecting the Nile to the Red Sea. It was the boundary town between...
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  • was first used in the Nile river for irrigation purposes in Ancient Egypt Early 3rd century BC: Canal lock in Canal of the Pharaohs under Ptolemy II (283–246...
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    engraving of Darius the Great, which belongs to the fifth century BC: King Darius says: I ordered to dig this (Canal of the Pharaohs) canal from the river...
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    Bubastis (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    the northern side of the city commenced the Canal of the Pharaohs, which Pharaoh Necho II began (but never finished) to go between the Nile and the Red...
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    ISBN 90-04-11123-9 Redmount, Carol A. (1995): "The Wadi Tumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 127–135...
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    west, the agricultural region of Faiyum was developed by the canalization of Bahr Yusuf. In the Late Period, to the east, the Pharaohs' Canal provided...
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    Qedarites (redirect from Kingdom' of Qedar)
    by helping the imperial authorities prevent any further revolt of Egypt; at the same time, the Qedarites protected the Canal of the Pharaohs dug by Darius...
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    2022-10-30. "The Development of Canal Locks | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-07-24. "Canal of the Pharaohs: The Forerunner to The Suez...
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  • BC: Canal of the Pharaohs is built in Egypt. 542 BC: First written record of a trireme. 5th century BC: Hanno the Navigator explores the coast of West...
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    of 3.7 to 1. The largest canal appears to be the Canal of the Pharaohs connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea via the Nile. Opened by king Ptolemy...
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    accompanying the expedition to the remains of the Canal of the Pharaohs, built by Necho II between the River Nile and the Gulf of Suez and improved by Ptolemy II...
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  • Netherlands (approximate date). Caliph al-Mansur orders the closing of the Canal of the Pharaohs (Egypt). The only remaining land routes to transship camel caravans'...
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    Senusret III (category Pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt)
    III cleared a navigable canal through the first cataract of the Nile River, (this was different from the Canal of the Pharaohs, which apparently, Senusret...
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    perhaps Pentawer, a son of Pharaoh Ramses III. Thutmose, Ramses' cousin: a fairly common name, also the name of four pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty. Sarah,...
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    as a Lessepsian migrant via the Suez Canal after many of its cuttlebones were washed up on beaches in Israel in the early 2000s. They have been observed...
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  • Edward B. Banning (category Academic staff of the University of Toronto)
     60–73. Redmount, Carol (1995). "The Wadi Tumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 54 (2): 127–135. doi:10.1086/373742...
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