Venice and the Suez Canal

The Venetians wanted to re dig a canal from the Nata the Red Sea. But this idea, it was eventually abandoned as after a bunch of research, it was decided that it would be too expensive and too impractical. The Ottomans themselves who were then rule Egypt in name at least for the next 500 years or so, they began to investigate the idea of a canal just as Venice had wanted. Napoleon surveyors concluded that there was an eight and a half meter difference in the height of the two seas,. And this would mean that if we were to build a canal, we'd have to put locks and pumps and all sorts of expensive extra infrastructure in there. It's just