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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Redmount, Carol A. (1995). "The Wadi Tumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'." Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 54, 127–35. https://sourcebooks.fordham...
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