If you want to know what happened to this ancient canal, check out my latest video about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_MP9uvw9T6A.html
-Oh no! Most gracious Pharaoh! My merchant ship full of expensive species and merchandise bound for Greece has become stuck in your canal. Will you please help me, Morning and Evening Star? 😢 -Sure, mate! 😄 Soldiers! Light that thing on fire, destroy it with catapults, and fish the remaining pieces out of the water with fishing nets. -😄 Thank you, my L... 😐 Wait. What!? 😱
growing up, I always assumed that ancient humans were primitive and less intelligent than the modern human, but the more I study history the more I realize that ancients were just as intelligent and creative as modern humans are. In fact, all the knowledge and technology that we have now is a continuation of the knowledge and technology that our ancient ancestors had.
That’s very true. In fact there’s a lot of evidence (not speculation, real evidence) showing that in some regards they had knowledge that we haven’t rediscovered yet.
Bro I literally thought the same .. even when it comes to health wise .. I thought that we are more knowledgeable and that we last longer due to hospitals.. little do I know .. that there’s people that live in the mountains in ancient time that lives for about 100 years or more
how? It's "move bunch of dirt then let water in", any state capable of large scale construction is easily capable of doing such, it's all just a matter of resources and labor. Egypt is VERY well known for their willingness to spend both.
@@molybdaen11 again, you just make a huge ditch, until you reach both water bodies you want to have connected. At that point you break the dirt barriers, letting the waters flood the ditch, and then have hundreds of men with buckets on ropes to dredge the dirt out until boats can pass through. boom, canal. It's all manpower.
@@exileeight8055 Well, this was before the collapse of the bronce age. Humans still had ambitions back then and were ready to use they skills to achieve them. Of course we have amazing buildings today too. But nothing is as mind blowing then heavy stones forming a big builded in a place which lost its significance for more then 1500 jears now.
What's amazing is that the ancient Suez Canal, that few know, had been in use for MUCH longer than the current one. Thus with long interruptions, it had been in use for over 1200 years (over 1400 if Darius I already completed it).
Fun fact: In -CK3 and I think 4- CK2 and I think CK3, there is a river route from the Baltic to the black sea (north and south of eastern europe). This in too existed in reality (but you had to carry your boat overland a bit to make it). It was often used by people hiring into the varangian guard.
Great content - fantastic idea to use Imperator for the UI! Never knew that the canal was historical and not just gameplay related, keep up the awesome work!
Have seen this referenced in an obscure history book- apparently there is still a visible scar/depression where the canal met the Nile, as the canal was used for centuries and even after it failed several attempts were made to revive it.
The ruins were found and explored by Napoleons expedition to Egypt in 1799 with the southern half of current Suez canal following the route of the old one the main difference being the current one does not connect to the Nile. Thus solving the issue of fresh water and salt water mixing without the need for sluice gates
The Nile wasn't the problem, @@jonsouth1545. It was the Great Bitter Lake, and the modern Suez canal _does_ go through the Great Bitter Lake. It was in the news when the Ever Given was finally floated and stayed in the lake for a hull inspection.
@@KenJackson_US You might want to read what I said more carefully I was clearly talking about the ancient canal when I said the Nile was the issue with the ancient Suez canal due to the fears of mixing salt and fresh water and that the modern one bypasses that by not connecting to the Nile not the modern one. Learn to read before you make an ass of yourself in the comments
@@jonsouth1545 I hate to be the one to tell you this mate, but you should try out the magic of punctuation a lot more than you seem to do. My guess is thatif you did, perhaps some of us would find it a lot easier to understand what you are trying to ”say”. 😁
@@Vulturefist : Commas would be nice, but aren't vital, and both of his messages are perfectly readable without them. Yours is actually worse, because you typed "thatif" instead of "that if".
Nice to hear in Ancient times they considered the environmental impact of the salt water Red Sea on the fresh water Nile River. A lesson for Nicaragua about Lake Nicaragua if they decide to build a canal. Heard the ancient Suez canal was under-utilized because of prevailing wind conditions in the era of sail.
I heard that they've scraped that idea already, public support was at an all-time low and the firm that proposed the canal went bankrupt. Hopefully no one suggests something like that again
"King Darius says: I am a Persian; setting out from Persia I conquered Egypt. I ordered to dig this canal from the river that is called Nile and flows in Egypt, to the sea that begins in Persia. Therefore, when this canal had been dug as I had ordered, ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, as I had intended."
Yeah, I read that too.(in a book somewhere in the house). Easier to Google the question than start rakin' about. This is what I thought the video here was going to be about.
WOW!!.I didn't even imagine,ancient Civilizations,could envisionate the real possibility,of conneting the Mediterranean,with the Red Sea!!. So today, I just learned something new,I plainly ignored.Thanks a lot for uploading this vídeo!!. :-) !!!.
At the time of Cleopatra it was still partly existent, but no more entirely navigable (it's belived that the Red Sea coast receded with time, so it required continuous excavation works at that end to not have it covered with sand). The canal had been re-excavated and gone several times until about 1000 AD, when it had been repaired one last time, before being lost forever.
when the French expeditionary army under Napoleon went to Egypt in 1799, they found there were still remnants of the ancient canal, but it was no longer navigable, requiring the Suez canal to be built in the following century.
How about that! Already knew about the fact that there was a usable canal during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, I think that's right. But I had no idea how it was made --- took canal locks to make it happen. Lessons: Don't let anyone tell you that math doesn't count or isn't important. Or that you can't make $ with it.
Most likely because it was only limited to small ships. So large merchant ships still had to offload to smaller barges that would navigate to the other side of the canal and load onto a large merchant ship again.
@@APPLEPIE978 sadly. Ships were divided between East and west. Those ships who got to the mouth of the Ganges couldn’t bask in the warmth of the Mediterranean
Really great video! I don’t know if this is true but I once read that Venice wanted to make another canal around the 15th century for trade and navigational reasons but never did. Anyway I liked the visuals you used
They did some surveying. Which also would have been why they only realized partway through: they needed to get close enough that their measurement & numerical errors no longer exceeded the difference.
if you're able level the vast area the foundation needed for pyramids, orientate them too precise astrological coordinates all while keeping them square and plumb, your dilemma sounds like child's play.
Very special video I remember Ander Wajda make 🎥 Faraon the story about canal and one sleve how working, to make canal and after like you say othe come and other him to put sunds back thank you very much work sharing video Darius is the Persian name but in my country Poland lots of boy hove this name, happy weekend to you,
The were also attempts in the tenth century. One called Shat El Arab, a canal that was reclaimed by the sands. There were dozens of such efforts attempting to join already dug sections.
Interesting, so is the ancient canal any relation to the somewhat more modern sweetwater canal found around Ismalia. When I served in Egypt, there were scads of stories about it, but no real info.
Not to be a spoiler, but there was no “ancient” Panama Canal. It’s a completely artificial route. It was started by the French in 1881, and finished by the US in 1914. Before the canal was built, it was a long sail around Cape Horn.
According to "The Oera Linda" Frisian and Phoenician sailors regularly traveled from The Mediterranean to The Red Sea, until the canal was washed out by a catastrophe around 1600 bc, leaving colonies in The Punjab cut off, who later returned to their ancient homeland with Alexander The Great.
It may have _strengthened_ colonization efforts, but Egypt actually had a series of towns that served a trading post on that coastline anyways, so they presumably would have had some colonization going on regardless. Also, a lot of stuff was focussed on the southern Nile, which I believe has somewhat easier overland access to the coast anyways. And, finally, while Egypt had a lot of river travel going on, they don't seem to ever have attempted big maritime wars, seemingly sticking to the places that they could easily get to by crossing over land and rivers alone. This might have been because of their oceanic ships, which were apparently these big reed constructions with just a bit of strengthening (e.g., some ropes running fore to aft to pull the ends up).
1) Because they spent lots of time in the sun, and thus got tanned- southern europeans (e.g. Italians, Spaniards) get tan for the same reason in the same circumstances; 2) because they mostly weren't Western Europeans, they were a mix of sub-Saharan Africans and Mediterraneans; 3) because they did leave some painted images of themselves, where they depicted themselves as brown, and others as various other colors.
the map itself is the map from imperator rome, the 3D renders are from that game as well. You can achieve those with a large amount of console comands. It almost looks like a 3D ancient world
@@acebalistic1358 No, it's not what I'm referring to. It didn't go to the Bitter Lakes. There was a canal that ran from about two thirds of the way down the Red Sea at right angles straight across to the Nile at its closest point in Egypt; this may have been Luxor. I read that the problem bringing freight down the Red Sea to the canal was that at this end of the Red Sea the wind only blew one way for six months of the year. This would not affect military ships with rowers, but the business class with sailing ships... The problem with the canal was the 'Top Banana' whoever it was kept increasing the fee for using it. Also, the silt constantly had to be cleared, which was paid for by the traders who only used it for half of the year. Thus the silt was never properly cleared which meant that all the buyers& sellers had difficulty bringing along boats of the size they'd prefer. The bigger the vessel the less journeys needed. I can't remember if the cargo had to be moved onto small barges or not, then pulled by animals of some kind. I think there was a problem with pirate's too. The merchants in the end preferred to move through the desert finding safety in greater numbers with each other; clubbing together to pay for armed escort. I only read about this in one book. A history of boats. How accurate it is who can say ? It may all have been a dream of The Grand Wazoo.
Water flowed from the Nile to the Red sea. The Mediterranean sea is saline too but it doesn't affect the salinity of the Nile (perhaps with the exception of the delta region)
@@RK-gv7rc Wikipedia is supposedly a collective effort, but what we see (unless we search through the history) is whatever the last contributor chose to leave us. Many people enjoy falsifying it.
@@leonardhaggstrom8541 To place a _guess,_ the Mediterranean has less water flowing in from rivers than flowing out via evaporation. That results in a constant current from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, and the volume of the flow gets restricted between Europe & Africa, reducing the volume-per-second, which in turn reduces the height of the water. The Red Sea has some limitations on flow as well, but it's connection to the Indian ocean is much shorter than at least Egypt's connection to the Atlantic.
And so , when was Zeus turned to Suez?..... and whom did it? I had read that some early church figure made the change during an early pagan decline period. He simply made the change on some important map and no one dared to make a correction. It stuck. This was one of those mental truth wisps that went by really fast, and it needs some fact. Can anyone help me?
It has nothing to do with Zeus. Suez comes from Arabic اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways), which comes from Egyptian suan (“beginning”), in reference to the port at the head of the Red Sea.
Aristotle is wrong, and you are wrong to take his guess work for fact. The canal was completed under Darius I, with ships getting from his empire in the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf (his home area). When the modern Suez canal was being built by the French, they found all the commemorative stones and written stele, celebrating the completion of the canal under Darius. His son Xerxes build a similar canal at Mt. Atos in Greece, to easy the navigation from his Macedonian and Adriatic provinces into the old Darius Canal (the Suez built by Darius mentioned above) into the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. You can Google all these and see the photos and modern state of those canals