Show completing Comp letin the suez canal men ilen dreamed of 0 severing the connecting isthmus between africa and asia long centuries ago but until the middle nineteenth century the project remained a dream then in 1851 1854 a frenchman delesseps obtained a concession from the khedive of 0 egypt and began the actual digging financing the work by public sale of stock in 1800 haying having encountered numerous obstacles and spent more than twice the estimated sum the engineers completed the suez canal |