Belive there was a slipway (place to drag ships across land) or ancient canal between the NIle river and the Red Sea.
Here is a concept not often explored or considered. I have even criticized the head of the world maritime university about this. Why a slipway? Why drag ships? The concept is completely impractical on it’s face.
Why is it that everything having to do with ships/vessels requires “portage”, or the towing of smaller vessels? Why is it that when looking at the history of sea travel, only certain ports and vessel construction sites are considered as sources of all vessels?
The Vikings could not land a vessel on one shore and then hike across land and build another vessel as needed with axes as they were constructed originally in the great lakes? Couldn’t happen because they had to find a way to drag one across land and use it again which is totally impractical and stupid? Seafarers did not have land legs or intelligence at all?
The head of the world maritime university once said in a video that the only way the Vikings could have reached the great lakes is if they also towed several smaller vessels behind their ships to do it. And that ALL vessels could have only been made in one or two shipyards. And that there was no way they could drag even those over land.
Wait? really? They were not capable of just building new vessels as needed on the other side of the “by foot” land crossing? Knowledge, skill, axes and trees equal ships no matter where you happen to be. Skills, knowledge and labor did not require to be dragged across land with special very impractical efforts.
This narrative and consensus is starting to bug me. Just because we would be stupid enough to think and require this does not mean our predecessors were actually that inept. This one huge difference of perspective completely changes the “assumed” history of sea travel. They did not have unions and “not my job” or “not certified to do that” policies.