What is the cause of red lumps on the back, neck and chest and when squeezed lots of blood appears. The bleeding more What is the cause of red lumps on the back, neck and chest and when squeezed lots of blood appears. The bleeding would last for approx 20-30minutes.
Although the Suez Canal wasn't officially completed until 1869, there is a long history of interest in connecting both the Nile River in Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
On April 25, 1859 the digging of the Canal began and continued for ten years. More than 1.5 million Egyptian workers took part, of which more than 125.000 lost their lives. On November 17,1869 the Suez Canal was opened for navigation. The Suez Canal has a strategic location.It links two oceans and two seas the Atlantic and Mediterranean via Gibraltar to Port Said, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea via Bab Al Mandab and the Gulf of Suez to the port of Suez.n July 1956, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal after it had been an international company for about 87 years. The canal was closed to Israeli shipping and cargoes from 1948 to 1975 and to all shipping from 1967 to 1975, following the ARAB-ISRAELI WAR of 1967.