Pharaonic solar boat
estimated as 5,000-year-old has been unearthed by French archaeologists in Abu
Rawash, West of Cairo, Egypt, the country’s antiquities ministry said few days ago.
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister,
Mohammed Ibrahim, said the date of the boat “goes back to the era of Pharaoh
Den, one of the First Dynasty kings."
The pharaohs, according to
legends, held a belief that solar boats buried close to their grave would offer
another life after death.
It’s six-metre (19.6 feet)
long and 1.5-metre wide and “in good condition," Ibrahim added.
About 58 years ago, 1954
precisely, an Egyptian archaeologist discovered what was described as Pharaoh
Khufu's solar ship, a 43-metre made of cedar at a Giza pyramid. About 4, 500
year-old vessel, it’s currently on display near the pyramid.
However, the new discovery is undergoing renovation before
it is put on display in a museum.
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