Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Uncovering Of 2nd Solar Boat, Giza
Youm7 (Akram Sami) A delegation from Waseda University has completed its exploratory research along with the Japanese Institute for Restoration Research, and is prepared to lift a stone cover, consisting of 40 panels, on the southern side of Khufu pyramid...
- 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...
Egypt
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 a Giza plateau that has been all but deserted since the January Revolution five months ago, was crowded again last Thursday as foreign and Egyptian journalists, photographers and TV crews armed with digital recorders and cameras awaited the arrival of Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass and the head of the archaeological and scientific team of Waseda University, Sakuji Yoshimura.
They were assembled to witness the lifting of the 41 blocks that have covered the pit of Khufu's second solar boat for the last 4,500 years, and the announcement of the start of the second phase of the boat's restoration project.
In a hanger built to cover the boat pit, a dozen workmen were helping Egyptian and Japanese scientists and archaeologists in white uniforms, yellow helmets and white masks to wrap the first stone block, weighing 16 tonnes, and to lift it aside so as to start uncovering Khufu's second boat.
The on-site team has developed a new technique to lift the blocks. They first inserted a chemically-treated piece of wood beneath the cover stone and then lifted it.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Uncovering Of 2nd Solar Boat, Giza
Youm7 (Akram Sami) A delegation from Waseda University has completed its exploratory research along with the Japanese Institute for Restoration Research, and is prepared to lift a stone cover, consisting of 40 panels, on the southern side of Khufu pyramid...
- 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...