The Red Sea isn’t red — so why does it have that name? |
The Red Sea is a narrow stretch of water that runs southeast from Suez in Egypt for about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) all the way to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which links it to the Gulf of Aden and then the Arabian Sea. It separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea on the west…