Location: It is situated to the south of the Great Pyramid. Who built it? It was established by Kamal El – Mallakh who was born in Assuit, Egypt, on October 26, 1918. He was a dedicated scholar of Egyptology and culture who died in October 1987. Why did it built? It built to contain the Solar Boat of the Great king Cheops which was discovered by Kamal El Mallakh in 1954.
Explanation: Solar Boat Museum
The museum has 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, was over 120 feet long and had 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,
Solar Boat Museum
allowing the boat to be stitched together by ropes or vegetable fibers. The boat an impressive 141 feet long and 20 feet wide. There are many suggestions about the function of solar boats; first, it is used for the soul of the dead to accompany the sun on its eternal journey in the heavens around the world, so a boat or at least a model of a boat included in every tomb. Moreover; it is used in religious events like pilgrimages and transporting the statue of a god. There are many suggestions about the function of solar boats;
Solar Boat Museum
first, it is used for the soul of the dead accompanied by the sun on its eternal journey in the heavens around the world, so a boat or at least a model of a boat is included in every tomb. Moreover; it is used in religious events like pilgrimages and transporting the statue of a god.
When the Egyptian antiquities inspector responsible for the area of Giza, Mohamed Zaky Nour, the civil engineer who was in charge of cleaning up the area of the Pyramids of Giza, Kamal el Malakh, and the supervisor of the cleaning process of the area, Doctor Abdel Men’em Aboubakr were finishing their work at the pyramids, they found what seemed to be a wall made out of limestone.
After much digging, they reached the bottom of the wall and found 42 pieces of rock that were divided into two groups to protect them from damage. On 26 May 1954, a hole was pierced into the chamber where pieces of a solar barque were buried, and everybody who was there smelled the distinctive scent of cedar wood.The ship had been disassembled for funeral rites into 1224 small pieces before being buried. It was fully re-assembled in 1968
Location:
It is situated to the south of the Great pyramid .
Who built it?
It was established by Kamal El – Mallakh who was born in Assuit, Egypt, on October 26, 1918. He was a dedicated scholar of Egyptology and culture died in October 1987.
Why was it built?
It was built to contain the Solar Boat of the great king Cheops which was discovered by Kamal El Mallakh in 1954.
Explanation:
The museum is a humidity-controlled pavilion, containing a 141 feet long boat, one of the five boat pits sunk around Cheops’s pyramid . The boat, made entirely of cedar wood, is over 120 feet long and is about 40 tons displacement.
It should be mentioned that there are 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 was helped by U-shaped holes, allowing the boat to be stitched together by ropes or vegetable fibers. The boat is an impressive 141 feet long and 20 feet wide.
There are many suggestions about the function of the solar boats; first it was 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 least a model of a boat was included in every tomb. Moreover; it was used in religious events like pilgrimages and transporting the statue of a god.
Some modern scientific studies that were recently carried out on the wood that was used to make the solar boat noted that this wood must have been 7,000 years old before being cut and used in the boat. Therefore, some scientific theories assert that the age of the solar boat is not less than 1,2000 years.
The boat has twelve paddles. Five of them were used for rowing from each side with four of these five paddles made in the shape of a bayonet that was used by the unseen sailors to protect the boat in its journey to the other word according to ancient Egyptian mythology. This is besides two paddles that were used to correct the path of the boat the same way the rudder functions.
Moreover, the boat had a primitive yet intelligent tool to examine the depths were the boat is sailing to prevent it from hitting any sand islands or beaches. This tool was manufactured in the shape of the two most important plants for the ancient Egyptians;
the Lotus and the Papyrus. This tool was actually guided towards the western direction to unify with the sun rays before it vanishes at the time of the sunset. Scientific studies are still carried out until today to be certain if the solar boats were only used as a symbol of the journey of the god Ra, the god of the sun, in his day and night journeys. The sun god Ra, according to the ancient Egyptian methodology,
used to benefit from the stars and their position to row and to travel from one place to another. In these journeys Ra used to go on, he used to purify the world from wicked souls and the people used to worship him and present him with offerings.
