Egypt
- 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...
- 2nd Phase Of The Khufu Solar Boat Restoration Project
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With three photos. At an international press conference held on Egypt's Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to announce the launch of the second phase of the...
- More Re Second Solar Boat
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Khufu's second solar boat is to be exhibited at the entrance of the Giza plateau after the completion of four years of restoration, writes Nevine El-Aref The north side of King Khufu's Great Pyramid, which dominates...
- Second Solar Boat To Undergo Two Phases Of Restoration
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photos. Today marks the start of the second phase of the project that will involve raising the stone blocks covering the boat pit. The first stone block, out of a total of 41, was carefully lifted this morning. To give...
- Pipe Bursts At Boat Museum
On the Giza plateau sits next to the great pyramid a museum with one main object the gigantic solar boat found in a pit next to the pyramid of King Khufu. The 4600 year old boat was found in its pit taken apart in 1223 pieces that took...
Egypt
Making a boat fit for a king
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref)
Giza plateau was crowded on Monday as journalists, TV anchors, photographers and antiquities officials flocked to the northern side of King Khufu's Great Pyramid to witness Japanese scientists and archaeologists taking samples from different parts of Khufu's second solar boat, which is still buried in sand after 4,500 years. The boat's wooden beams are to be subjected to laboratory analysis to determine the types of fungi, insects and viruses that are affecting the boat, as well as the amount of deterioration that has taken place, so that an appropriate method can be selected to restore it and place it on display beside King Khufu's first boat, which is on display in a museum especially constructed for it on the plateau.
"This is the third phase of the five-year project to restore Khufu's second boat," Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim who told journalists. The first phase began 20 years ago, when in 1992 a Japanese scientific and archaeological team from Waseda University in collaboration with the Japanese government, offered a grant of $10 million to remove the boat from its original pit, restore and reassemble it and put it on show to the public.
- 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...
- 2nd Phase Of The Khufu Solar Boat Restoration Project
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With three photos. At an international press conference held on Egypt's Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to announce the launch of the second phase of the...
- More Re Second Solar Boat
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Khufu's second solar boat is to be exhibited at the entrance of the Giza plateau after the completion of four years of restoration, writes Nevine El-Aref The north side of King Khufu's Great Pyramid, which dominates...
- Second Solar Boat To Undergo Two Phases Of Restoration
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photos. Today marks the start of the second phase of the project that will involve raising the stone blocks covering the boat pit. The first stone block, out of a total of 41, was carefully lifted this morning. To give...
- Pipe Bursts At Boat Museum
On the Giza plateau sits next to the great pyramid a museum with one main object the gigantic solar boat found in a pit next to the pyramid of King Khufu. The 4600 year old boat was found in its pit taken apart in 1223 pieces that took...