#port said history
Named after Khedive Said who approved the project in question, Port Said witnessed one of history’s most groundbreaking moments, the digging of the Suez Canal. Believed to have been inspired by unfinished construction plans by Napoleon 1st, and even before him by possible initial diggings during Ancient Egyptian times, it was Ferdinand De Lesseps who led to its realisation. The aspiration behind it was always that of the construction of a canal connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, cutting…
