The incredible 'mini Suez Canal' in Europe that took 2,500 years to build This incredible artificial canal, some 2,500 years in the making, stands as an incredible example of engineering.

It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and "separates the Peloponnese peninsula from the rest of the mainland." The ...

The Corinth Canal connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, ...

Building a canal made perfect sense, but the job was anything but simple. Its history reveals a long litany of failures – a 2,500-year gestation repeatedly foiled by superstition, lack of funds ...

Dimitris Sideridis, CNN Under the blue skies of Greece, a giant vessel slowly makes its way through the rocky walls of a narrow, artificial waterway, with just a few inches to spare on either side ...

Work on the canal which is to cut the Isthmus of Corinth is already begun. The director of this great enterprise is Gen. TURR, a man of remarkable energy, hitherto known chiefly as a soldier of ...