Mark Anthony Meertins 5-305

 Ancient Suez Canal  Modern Suez Canal  Ancient Life  Modern Life  Ancient Sphinx  Modern Buildings

 The Canal of the Pharaohs or the Necho’s Canal known as the Ancient Suez Canal was the forerunner of the Suez canal.  This Canal followed a different course than its counterpart in modern Egypt, it links the Nile to the red sea.  Work on the canal began under the pharaohs, the first opening of the canal was by the Persian king Darius the Great, but later Egyptian authors claim that he failed to complete his work.

 The new Canal will allow two-way traffic reducing transit and waiting time.  Egypt plans to create a major logistics and shipping corridor alongside the canal banks.  Officials dubbed the project for the next canal as ``the Great Egyptian Dream`` and bought into it quite literally.  The army engineering corps is leading the drilling of the canal.  Ministers admit there is a great deal at stake including, Egypt’s international credibility.  This new canal will show the whole world that Egypt is committed and into implementation it will put Egypt on the map again

 Life in Ancient Egypt revolved around the Nile river and the fertile land around the banks of this great river.  Yearly flooding of the Nile enriches the soil allowing farmers to plant and harvest good crops.  The people of Ancient Egypt built their homes out of mud bricks.  They grew their own crops and traded with other villages for the food and good they could not produce themselves.

 Life in Cairo is the same as life in many other cities