Giza Solar boat museum
Giza Solar boat museum is located in Northern Egypt
Giza Solar boat museum
Location within Northern Egypt
Established1982
Dissolved2021

The Giza Solar boat museum was dedicated to display the reconstructed Khufu ship, a solar barque of pharaoh Khufu. It was constructed between 1961 and 1982, just a few meters from where the Khufu ship was found, on the southern side of the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau in Egypt[1]

It was equipped with modern techniques and technologies to preserve the solar boat. The construction enabled viewing the boat from three different levels. On the ground floor, one could view the bottom of the boat.

The museum was dismantled after the ship was relocated to the Grand Egyptian Museum in August 2021.[2][3]

Khufu Ship

Great Pyramid of Giza from south showing the Solar boat museum

When the Egyptian antiquities inspector responsible for the area of Giza, Mohamed Zaky Nour, the civil engineer who was in charge of cleaning up the area of the Pyramids of Giza, Kamal el Malakh, and the supervisor of the cleaning process of the area, Doctor Abdel Men'em Aboubakr were finishing their work at the pyramids, they found what seemed to be a wall made out of limestone. After a lot of digging in the ground, they reached the bottom of the wall and found 42 pieces of rock that were divided into two groups to protect them against any outer dangers or harm. On 26 May 1954, the nozzle of the hole where the pieces of the solar boat were opened and everybody who was there smelled the distinctive scent of the cedar wood.[4] The ship was disassembled around the funeral rites into 1224 small pieces before being buried near the pyramids in the boat pit. The ship was fully re-assembled in 1968.[4][1]

Contents

  • Reassembled Khufu ship (now in the Grand Egyptian Museum)
  • A maquette Khufu Solar ship
  • Photos of the discovery and reassembling of the ship

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "The Solar Boat Museum | Egyptian Monuments". Egyptsites.wordpress.com. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "In pictures: Egypt pharaoh's 'solar boat' moved to Giza museum". BBC News. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Hany, Hanna (2007). "Cheops Wooden Boat and its Museum; Condition Case Study". International Conference on Heritage of Naqada and Qus Region. 1: 182–195.
  4. 1 2 "The Khufu solar boat museum, Egypt boat museum, ancient Boat of Cheops, Pyamids, Cairo, Egypt". Ask-aladdin.com. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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