King Khufu Boat King Khufu is the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was discovered by the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal El-Mallakh on May 26, 1954, in a pit on the south side of the Great Pyramid (Khufu). This boat is distinguished from other boats and is made of cedar wood. It consisted of 1,224 disassembled pieces, which were restored and reassembled by archaeology specialists. The boat was displayed in a special museum next to the Great Pyramid, but it was later demolished because it di

In Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, Khufu ruled in the 25th century BCE and raised the Great Pyramid at Giza—stone on a scale no one had ever seen. But just south of that pyramid, archaeologists uncovered something softer and stranger in 1954: two sealed pits holding dismantled royal ships. One of them was painstakingly rebuilt and displayed for decades. The other—Khufu’s “second solar boat”—remained a locked time capsule for generations. These boats were not toy models. They were full-size cedar vessels

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