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The Mediterranean Sea
Answer The Suez Canal is in the Sinai Peninsula. It connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It is rather strange to go through the canal, you feel like you are sailing through a desert!
Sailing galleys.
That was about the extent of the known world at the alleged time of the story.
stopped sailing ships in the Mediterranean sea
No. The Mediterranean Sea is much larger than the Dead Sea, over 3000 times larger.
From Nice, France to Casablanca, Morocco, you have to cross the Mediterranean sea.
They lived by trading. Since most of the then known civilization was established around the Mediterranean Sea, trading meant sailing to collect and deliver goods.
It's either the Barents Sea or the Mediterranean Sea, but a couple of sources on YahooAnswers confirm that it is the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mediterranean Sea.
Madrid is over 300 kms to the nearest sea