Shipwrecks
After 5,000 year voyage, world's oldest built boats deliver. Archeologists' first look confirms existence of earliest royal boats at Abydos by Richard Pierce. A fleet of the oldest built wooden boats in the world, located in the desert sands of Abydos, Egypt "" more than eight miles from the river Nile "" are painstakingly being excavated by archeo...
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In 1954 two intact Egyptian ships were found at the foot of the Great Pyramid. Around 2600 BC, during the Old Kingdom, the two planked ships were dismantled and buried in two pits, just outside the great pyramid of Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu). Each pit is 30 m long, carved in the rock and covered with a lid of large stone blocks....
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Cheops 1 is 42 m long. The hull is flat- or slightly round-bottomed, built "shell first" with cedar-wood planks joined edge to edge by "mortise-and-tenon" fashion and fixed together with rope. It has 10 oars but no mast or sail. The ship is papyriform, imitating a papyrus boat, with the bow and stern ends formed as papyrus bundles....
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The "Cairo Dashur Boats" refers to a collection of ancient wooden boats that were discovered near the Dashur Pyramids, located just south of Cairo, Egypt. These boats have historical and archaeological significance, shedding light on ancient Egyptian technology and burial practices. Here's a brief description:
Archaeological Find:
The Cairo Dashur ...
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Digital Exhibit.
The Dashur Boats of The Egyptian Museum Cairo. Combined Image Gallery...
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