Editing Suez (section)

===Achaemenid era===
[[Darius the Great]]'s [[Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions|Suez Inscriptions]] were texts written in [[Old Persian]], [[Elamite language|Elamite]], [[Babylonian language|Babylonian]] and [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of a canal between the [[Nile]] and the [[Bitter Lakes]], to facilitate a shipping connection between Egypt, then a [[Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt|satrapy]] of the [[Achaemenid Empire]], and Persia (i.e. the greater portion of the Empire itself).

====Text of the Suez Inscriptions====
Partial transliteration and translation of the inscription:

Transliteration of the Old Persian text:
{{lang|peo|xâmanišiya \ thâtiy \ Dârayavauš \ XŠ \ adam \ Pârsa \ amiy \ hacâ \ Pâ rsâ \ Mudrâyam \ agarbâyam \ adam \ niyaštâyam \ imâm \ yauviyâ m \ katanaiy \ hacâ \ Pirâva \ nâma \ rauta \ tya \ Mudrâyaiy \ danuvatiy \ ab iy \ draya \ tya \ hacâ \ Pârsâ \ aitiy \ pasâva \ iyam \ yauviyâ \ akaniya \ avathâ \ yathâ \ adam \ niyaštâyam \ utâ \ nâva \ âyatâ \ hacâ \ Mudrâ yâ \ tara \ imâm \ yauviyâm \ abiy \ Pârsam \ avathâ \ yathâ \ mâm \ kâma\ âha}}

English translation:
"King Darius says: I am a Persian; setting out from Persia I conquered Egypt. I ordered to dig this canal from the river that is called Nile and flows in Egypt, to the sea that begins in Persia. Therefore, when this canal had been dug as I had ordered, ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, as I had intended."