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Friday, June 15, 2012

The Museum of the sun boat – Egypt

The Museum of the sun boat – Egypt 


- Southeast of the pyramid there is a separate museum, built in the shape of the boat . the boat itself which is exhibited inside measures 43.6 meters in length and 5.9 meters in width. the boat was discovered in 1954 by archaeologist kamal el-mallakh . in 1982 ahmed yousef reconstructed the boat out of 650 different parts with the total of 1224 pieces . The boat was built from cedar planking in up to 13 layers thick .







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