Thailand's land bridge megaproject aims to bypass the Strait of Malacca and transform global trade routes by 2030.

But de Lesseps was certainly not the first to imagine a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas—and, by extension, Europe and Asia—through the Isthmus of Suez. The idea was ancient ...

THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... By December 1905, yellow fever had been officially eradicated on the Isthmus. In November, 1906, Roosevelt himself visited ...