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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, ...

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 ...

Around 300 years later, Demetrios, the Macedonian king, began building the canal, but it was the Roman emperor Nero who, in 66 AD, moved the work into top gear by importing 6,000 prisoners from ...

How the Groundbreaking Suez Canal Forever Transformed the World’s Shipping Routes The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of ...

Cruise passengers held their breath as a 22.5 meter wide cruise liner became the largest boat to pass through Greece's narrow Corinth Canal, according to its operator. Carrying 929 passengers, the ...

DURING a tour in Greece in the past summer I obtained a small number of stone implements chiefly from the Island of Kythera (cerigo) and the Isthmus of Corinth, consisting of a few corn-crushers ...