Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on November 17 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through 193 km of canal across the Sinai Isthmus; the canal was designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps and built 1859-1869 by the French-Egyptian Suez Canal Company using significant Egyptian labor (estimates of forced-labor deaths…
connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through 193 km of canal; designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps and built 1859-1869 by the French-Egyptian Suez Canal Company using substantial Egyptian labor.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →