05/08/2015
Al-Akhbar Newspaper 2015/AUGUST /05
The article published in Al Akhbar Newspaper with a pharaonic picture from Egyptian Antiquities museum in Berlin, the history of connecting between the Mediterranean and the Red seas, which goes back to four thousand years ago, starting from Senusret Canal (Sezostresse) to Deliseps project at the age of Khedive Said. The canal was inaugurated in 1869 in a great celebration which was attended by queen “Eugénie de Montijo”, Emperor of France, king of Austria and other kings and presidents of the world. The article assured that the most important matter that distinguishes the initiative of President El-Sisy in digging the new axis that it is an Egyptian project that was financed by Egyptians finance as well as labor regime management which estimates quantities of dry and moist digging equal to 200 times the volume of the great Pyramid, all of an Egyptian source.(Available in Arabic – German in PDF)
The article explained that, what surprises the world is that this achievement has been completed in one year period – while one million persons equal to 25% of people’s population that amounted then 4 million individuals worked in digging the canal at the time of the Pasha rule among which a number equals 170 thousand Egyptians has been deemed to death due to malnutrition and bad quality of water as well as overheating of the body cases throughout ten years, the total duration of Pasha Suez Canal digging, regarding the story of its finance, we can say so much. The published map is taken from an original design that is one of the constituents of Egyptian Antiquities museum in Berlin, different tracks that connect between both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red sea by means of the Nile as well as the most important imports and towns that were registered by Pharaohs are indicated in it.