The American Society of Civil Engineers recognizes the Panama Canal as one of ... imagine what it was like for ships before the canal was constructed. This narrow passage through the Central ...

At the height of the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s—the world’s largest and most expensive engineering project up to that point—workers were excavating the equivalent of ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have ...