First Canal

Where was the first canal built?

Archeologist believe the oldest canals in the world are those whose remains were discovered near Mandali in Iraq in 1968. They believed these canals  are nearly 7,000 year old (about 5,000 B.C.).

In 500 B.C. Darius the Great, the Persian emperor,  ordered a canal to be built joining the river of Nile to the Red Sea. This remarkable construction the forerunner of the modern Suiz Canal.