How long would it take to dig a 10 km canal with Bronze Age technology?

There's a a decent sized kingdom that is situated between the ocean and a gigantic dried out seabed. The Priest-King and his lackeys want to flood the useless desert because who wouldn't want more water access and bragging rights.

The only issue is that they live in a world that's in the Bronze Age. There's no excavators or dynamite like they had to dig the Suez or Panama Canal: all they have is human muscles.

Thus, how long would it take to dig a 10 kilometer canal across rocky soil with just hand tools and animal traction? The canal's width is 100 meters and the depth is 10 meters. There is no significant change in elevation.

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