Egypt
National Geographic
With photographs.
- Japanese-egyptian Team Starts Restoring King Khufu's Second Solar Boat
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The northern side of King Khufu’s great pyramid was brimming with media on Monday. TV anchors, journalists, photographers and archaeologists crowded to witness the Japanese scientific team take samples of wooden beams of...
- Restoration Of Second Khufu Boat Commences
Washington Post Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt’s main tourist attractions. The boat is one of two that were buried next to the Pharaoh Khufu, spokesmen for a joint...
- Sailing Into Eternity
Al Ahram Weekly Visitors to the Giza Plateau will be able to view Khufu's second solar boat through a tiny camera 4,500 years after it was buried to ferry the king to eternity. Nevine El-Aref takes a look. On the southern side of Khufu's Great...
- More Re Ancient Egyptian Boat To Be Excavated, Reassembled
Middle East Online (Jason Keyser) Thanks to Rick Menges for the above link. Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble...
- The Boat Beneath The Pyramid
Nancy Jenkins Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1980 ISBN 0-03-057061-1 This attractive book is filled with many images about pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the boat pits that accompany them including the subject of the book the boat found and restored...
Egypt
Excavating a solar boat
National Geographic
With photographs.
For the first time in centuries, a multi-ton limestone slab—one of dozens—floats free of the "tomb" of a 4,500-year-old, disassembled "solar boat" at the foot of the Great Pyramids in Giza (map), Egypt, on Thursday.
Below are hundreds of delicate wooden "puzzle pieces," protected by the climate-controlled tent built over the site in 2008.
Once the months-long process of extracting the pieces is finished, researchers expect to spend several years restoring the ship before placing it on display in Giza's Solar Boat Museum near the Pyramids. A similar ship found nearby has already been reconstructed and is on display in the museum. At about 140 feet (43 meters) long, the restored ship is thought to be a bit bigger than its still fragmented sister.
- Japanese-egyptian Team Starts Restoring King Khufu's Second Solar Boat
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The northern side of King Khufu’s great pyramid was brimming with media on Monday. TV anchors, journalists, photographers and archaeologists crowded to witness the Japanese scientific team take samples of wooden beams of...
- Restoration Of Second Khufu Boat Commences
Washington Post Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt’s main tourist attractions. The boat is one of two that were buried next to the Pharaoh Khufu, spokesmen for a joint...
- Sailing Into Eternity
Al Ahram Weekly Visitors to the Giza Plateau will be able to view Khufu's second solar boat through a tiny camera 4,500 years after it was buried to ferry the king to eternity. Nevine El-Aref takes a look. On the southern side of Khufu's Great...
- More Re Ancient Egyptian Boat To Be Excavated, Reassembled
Middle East Online (Jason Keyser) Thanks to Rick Menges for the above link. Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble...
- The Boat Beneath The Pyramid
Nancy Jenkins Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1980 ISBN 0-03-057061-1 This attractive book is filled with many images about pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the boat pits that accompany them including the subject of the book the boat found and restored...