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Scholars Will Reassemble Ancient Egyptian Boat
posted: 19 July 2008 08:08 am ET
- Tourists visit the ancient Pharaos king Cheops' first solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, July 19, 2008. Cheops' second solar boat is now displayed through a camera put inside the boat which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The solar boats are believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago. Credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Archaeologists and scholars will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great pyramid. They will then try to reassemble the craft.
The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces in 1954 from another pit and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.
Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images from inside the second boat pit from a camera inserted through the a hole in the chamber's limestone ceiling.
Professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan's Waseda University says the excavation of around 600 pieces of timber will begin in November.
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