Location: It situated to the south of the Great Pyramid.

Who built it?

It established by Kamal El – Mallakh who born in Assuit,

Egypt, on October 26, 1918. He a dedicated scholar of Egyptology and culture who died in October 1987.

Why did it build?

It built to contain the Solar Boat of the great king Cheops which

discovered by Kamal El Mallakh in 1954.

The museum a humidity-controlled pavilion, containing a 141 feet

longboat, one of the five boat pits sunk around Cheops’s pyramid.

The boat, made entirely of cedarwood, over 120 feet long and about 40 tons of displacement.

It should be mentioned that their boat pits near the pyramid of Cheops,

5 pits to the east of the Great Pyramids and 2 pits to the south.

The reconstruction of the solar boats took 14 years, but helped by U-shaped holes,

allowing the boat to be stitched together by ropes or vegetable fibers.

The boat an impressive 141 feet long and 20 feet wide.

There many suggestions about the function of solar boats;

first, it used for the soul of the dead accompanied the sun on

its eternal journey in the heavens around the world, so a boat or at

At least a model of a boat included in every tomb. Moreover;

it used in religious events like pilgrimages and transporting the statue of a god.

There are many suggestions about the function of solar boats;

first, it used for the soul of the dead accompanied the sun on

its eternal journey in the heavens around the world, so a boat or at

At least a model of a boat included in every tomb. Moreover;

it used in religious events like pilgrimages and transporting the statue of a god.

Solar Boat Museum