The name of the sea may signify the seasonal blooms of the red-coloured cyanobacteria Trichodesmium erythraeum near the water's surface. Which gives the sea a red coloured look.
This sea is called the "Red Sea" because:
The Red Sea splits into two at its northern end into the Gulf of Suez, and the Gulf of Aqaba. The name originally applied to the Gulf of Aqaba, which...
Actually .. the Red Sea isn't normally red, its blue. One theory on how it got its name, is from early travelers who named the sea based on the color of the mountains surrounding it, which are a...
a long time ago, there was a man who didnt want to eat his beets for supper so he cast then into the sea. he was upset so he cut his "ear for an eye of the sea goddess Vagoinu." This made the sea...