Giza Solar boat museum

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Khufu ship museum, exterior view

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[]

Great Pyramid of Giza from south showing the Solar boat museum

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ "In pictures: Egypt pharaoh's 'solar boat' moved to Giza museum". BBC News. 2021-08-07. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
  2. ^ a b "The Khufu solar boat museum, Egypt boat museum, ancient Boat of Cheops, Pyamids, Cairo, Egypt". Ask-aladdin.com. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  3. ^ a b "The Solar Boat Museum | Egyptian Monuments". Egyptsites.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

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Coordinates: 29°58′41″N 31°08′04″E / 29.97806°N 31.13444°E / 29.97806; 31.13444

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