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The canal across Egypt's Isthmus of Suez bridging the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea means linking the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. This man-made canal has been an essential vessel for global trade since the mid-19th century. Once the channel is blocked, European ships have to pass a long distance to reach Asia and do trading. The idea of bridging two continents via sea had excited the Egyptian rulers as well as the colonizers .  Pharaoh Senusret III(1887-1849 BC) built the first canal bridging the Erythraean Sea( today's Red Sea) and the Nile river and opening a waterway to the Mediterranean. Many new emperors tried to build new canals to reduce traffic. Many geologists believe that the coastlines of the Red Sea have moved southwards away from the lakes in Suez. Continuous accumulations of silt made it hard to maintain the water channel. For centuries, Egyptian rulers avoided this waterway until the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 as part of his ...

Sheri Hooley on Unsplash Doors are meant to be opened. Well! not these doors. They are thought to contain anything from treasures to mummified remains and ancient curses. Some of the most visited places in the world have secret rooms and chambers sealed off by mysterious doorways. People won't talk about what is inside them. And once sealed they have remained closed but what exactly they are protecting us from. In Kerala, India, there is a grand structure known as Padmanabhaswamy temple. It was created in the 6th century and built upon until the 16 century by the kings of the Travancore royal family. The most valuable part of this ornate building is its 6 sealed underground vaults. But one of them remains unknown to this day. The vault sits behind ornately designed solid doors. Five of these doors were able to be pried open and inside they found 22 billion dollars worth of treasure including jewellery and solid gold idols. Vault B also called Bharata Conchal era is the only vault ...

  Once Africa is seen by Europe as the antithesis of civilization. Centuries later, Africa remains unnoticed.it makes news for its conflicts, poverty, and strangeness. For the longest time, the globe saw it as an effort, then one country saw a chance and therefore began a brand new race for Africa. Not terribly totally different from the scramble of Africa within the nineteenth century, once colonial GB and France wished stuff, slaves, and political benefits. Currently, within the twenty-first century, international powers unite a lot of or less within the same race. Countries together with China, the US., India, the European Union, Japan, Israel, Canada all of those countries are a unit within the same race for Africa. One country among them appears to be a whole winner. Africa a continent of fifty-four sovereign states,17% of the world's population,6% of the worldwide oil output, ninetieth of the world’s Pt provide, ninetieth of the world’s metal provide, 1/2 the world's gold...