The idea was ancient, likely dating to the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret III, who envisioned and commissioned a similar project in the 19th century B.C.E.The so-called “Canal of the ...

Some years ago a few private gentlemen of England resolved to have the Isthmus surveyed to ascertain if a ship-canal could not be constructed profitably as a stock operation. £5,000 were raised ...

A French company hires Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal in Egypt, to build a canal through the Colombian Isthmus of Panama. The 50-mile-long canal is expected to take 12 years to ...