Giza Solar boat museum
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The Giza Solar boat museum is located in Egypt. It was constructed around 1985 and was dedicated to display the reconstructed Khufu ship, a solar barque; this however was relocated to the Grand Egyptian Museum in August 2021.[1]
Khufu Ship[]
When the Egyptian antiquities inspector responsible for the area of Giza, Mohamed Zaky Nour, the civil engineer who was in charge of cleaning up the area of the Pyramids of Giza, Kamal el Malakh, and the supervisor of the cleaning process of the area, Doctor Abdel Men'em Aboubakr were finishing their work at the pyramids, they found what seemed to be a wall made out of limestone. After a lot of digging in the ground, they reached the bottom of the wall and found 42 pieces of rock that were divided into two groups to protect them against any outer dangers or harm. On the 26th of May 1954, the nozzle of the hole where the pieces of the solar boat were opened and everybody who was there smelled the distinctive scent of the cedar wood.[2] The ship was disassembled around the funeral rites into 1224 small pieces before being buried near the pyramids in the boat pit. The ship was fully re-assembled in 1968.[2][3]
Museum[]
The museum lies just a few meters from where it was found on the southern side of the pyramid.[3] It was constructed next to the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The museum was equipped with modern techniques and technologies in order to preserve the solar boat. The museum was constructed so as to enable viewing the boat from three different levels in three floors. On the ground floor, one could view the bottom of the boat.
Contents[]
- Reassembled Khufu ship (now in the Grand Egyptian Museum)
- A maquette Khufu Solar ship
- Photos of the discovery and reassembling of the ship
Gallery[]
Khufu solar ship museum outdoors view
Boat museum, Giza Pyramids Plateau, Egypt
Khufu Solar ship in the museum
Khufu Solar ship maquette
A modern model of the Solar Barge displayed in the museum
See also[]
- Ancient Egyptian solar ships
- Abydos boats
- Ancient Egyptian technology
- Ships preserved in museums
References[]
- ^ "In pictures: Egypt pharaoh's 'solar boat' moved to Giza museum". BBC News. 2021-08-07. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ a b "The Khufu solar boat museum, Egypt boat museum, ancient Boat of Cheops, Pyamids, Cairo, Egypt". Ask-aladdin.com. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
- ^ a b "The Solar Boat Museum | Egyptian Monuments". Egyptsites.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
External links[]
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- Saudiaramcoworld.com
- Web archive backup: Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia – "Cheops ship"
- A Visitors Perspective of the Khufu Boat Museum
- Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt: Khufu Boat Museum
Coordinates: 29°58′41″N 31°08′04″E / 29.97806°N 31.13444°E
- Giza Plateau
- Ancient Egyptian ships
- Ships preserved in museums
- Ship burials