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there was a 500 BC predecessor to Suez canal, connecting the Nile and Red sea, thus enabling a single water route to Malabar (India) from Rome. It had water locks to solve the higher elevation of sea than the inlands

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Fun Fact: there was a 500 BC predecessor to Suez canal, connecting the Nile and Red sea, thus enabling a single water route to Malabar (India) from Rome. It had water locks to solve the higher elevation of sea than the inlands

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