Pharaoh’s ‘Solar Boat’ Moved To Egyptian Museum
August 9, 2021
1:55 am
The oldest and largest surviving Pharaohs commissioned solar boats which were intended to be taken to the afterlife have instead been transported 7.5 kilometers (5 miles) away to a new museum.
According to a statement released by the country’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry on Saturday, they stated that King Khufu’s 4,600-year-old solar boat, intended to bring him to heaven, was instead transported a few kilometers to a new antiquities museum.
The 42-meter-long (138-foot), the 20-ton vessel made of cedarwood was brought to the soon-to-open Grand Egyptian Museum inside a metal cage on a remote-controlled vehicle imported from Belgium for the
