Sesostris
Legendary pharaoh who first conceived of digging a navigable canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean but was deterred.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 9: Let the waters be gathered together
— Cited for first conceiving of digging a canal from the Red Sea but being deterred
"Pliny records that Sesostris, king of Egypt, first conceived of digging a navigable channel from the Red Sea"