“Archaeologists Find a Rare 4500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat”

“Archaeologists Find a Rare 4500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat” February 2, 2016

 

King Khufu's solar boat
The “solar boat” of Khufu was found in 1954 on the Giza Plateau, just outside of Cairo, near the Great Pyramid. It was buried there around 2500 BC.
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

And now, yet another buried boat has been found, though this one is somewhat smaller than that of Khufu and appears not to be a royal vessel:

 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-find-rare-4500-year-old-egyptian-funerary-boat-180958020/?utm_source=facebook.com&no-ist

 

(Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to this.)

 

 


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