http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_canal said: Old Cairo to the Red Sea[edit]

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea,[8][9] but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction—either Trajan or 'Amr ibn al-'As, or Omar the Great.[8][9] This canal reportedly linked to the River Nile at Old Cairo[9] and ended near modern Suez.[8][36] A geography treatise by Dicuil reports a conversation with an English monk, Fidelis, who had sailed on the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the first half of the 8th century[37]

The Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur is said to have ordered this canal closed in 767 to prevent supplies from reaching Arabian detractors.[8][9]

Repair by Tāriqu l-Ḥākim[edit]

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah is claimed to have repaired the Old Cairo to Red Sea passageway,[8][9] but only briefly, circa 1000 AD,[8][9] as it soon "became choked with sand."[9] However, we are told that parts of this canal still continued to fill in during the Nile's annual inundations.[8][9] Click to expand...

Personally i want to see what the next dev diary has to offer. Nestorianism is becoming a parent religion, decadence is being reworked, east africa is supposedly expanded, and then we have indian ocean sea zones. We all really want to see at least some of these issues addressed in either the live stream or Dev diary that comes out tomorrow. Personally i want to see what they've done to allow seazones in the indian ocean. While the most famous, and largest, of the canals that connect the red sea to the Mediterranean the Suez canal was not the only one. If paradox made the red sea navigable does that mean they added the much older Pharaohs canal and rightly by extension make the nile navigable?edit: to the person above complaining about the suez canal i provide an excerpt from a wikipedia article about the suez canal