Talking Pyramids

The video recently taken of Khufu’s second boat pit has been posted on the National Geographic website: Video of the Boat pit from National Geographic Click the image above to watch the video.

Here are some more photos of the boat museum built to house the first of Khufu’s funeral boats. These photos were supplied by Guy Flaneur who has done an excellent job of capturing a variety of interesting views of Khufu’s boat, and some of the accompanying objects in the boat museum. A slide show of [...]

Zahi Hawas, left, and Sakuji Yoshimura, right, from Waseda Universty in Japan, display for the first time the Pharaoh Cheops’ second solar boat through a camera put inside the boat pit. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Today the viewing of Khufu’s second boat in it’s underground tomb went ahead successfully as planned. Visitors to the plateau were [...]

Khufu’s first solar boat. Khufu’s first solar boat was discovered in pieces in a pit on the south side of his pyramid in 1954. It has now been rebuilt and resides in a museum built especially to display the boat located directly above the pit. Three years later in 1957 another solar boat was found [...]

Khufu’s funerary barge at Giza may undergo a long-overdue professional overhaul based on a new conservation and condition report, says Jill Kamil. Workers transporting the solar boat from its pit to the restoration lab. source: Al-Ahram Ever since its discovery in 1954, the magnificent 4,600-year-old wooden funerary barge of Khufu, the builder of the Great [...]