The Boat Beneath the Pyramid: King Cheops' Royal ShipIn 1954, a young Egyptian archaeologist, clearing a site just south of the Great Pyramid at Giza, discovered a great papyriform ship, built for a king and then dismantled and buried at the height of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. This book tells the story of this Royal Ship--its discovery, excavation and reconstruction. The author also addresses who built the ship and why, how it has survived intact for so long, and what connection it may have had with the age-old Egyptian myth of the Sun-god, eternally journeying across the heavens in the Reed Float. This book is also the story of Ahmed Youssef Moustafa, Chief Restorer of the Department of Antiquities, who almost single-handedly put back together the 1,223 pieces of the ship. |
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Chronological table | 6 |
The pyramidbuilders | 19 |
Discovery | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ancient Egyptian archaeologists Aswan baldachin beams Bent Pyramid boat-building boat-pits boat's British Museum built burial equipment buried Byblos cabin Cairo Museum canopy carved Causeway cedar Chephren construction cult Dahshur dead king deck Deir el-Bahri desert Djedefre Egyptologists excavation Fifth Dynasty foredeck Fourth Dynasty funerary barque Garth Denning Giza plateau Giza pyramids grave Herodotus hieroglyphs Horus hull timbers King Cheops King Sneferu king's Landström limestone blocks ma'et Mallakh marshes mastaba Meidum Meketre metres modern Mortuary Temple Mycerinus necropolis Nile oars Old Kingdom Osiris painted Palermo Stone papyriform boat papyrus papyrus raft papyrus-bud Photo John Ross prow pyra pyramid complex Pyramid Texts Queen Hetep-heres reconstruction reed rafts Reisner relief removed restoration shed ritual rope Royal Ship Saqqara ship's side Sneferu Step Pyramid stern pieces stone strakes Sun-god Thebes Third Dynasty tion tomb Upper Egypt Valley Temple wall wood wooden boats