Ancient Egypt (boats)

The ancient Egyptian depended on the Nile greatly, and it was the main road. For his transportation, transportation of war equipment, and the transport of stones used in the entire building, it was carried out via Nile barges. It was also used in Nile cruises. Besides being used in hunting

It played an important role in the life of the ancient Egyptian. There are two types of boats

Worldly, which is used in river transport, such as transporting huge stones from the south to the north or transporting

Goods by way of commercial flights, such as Queen Hatshepsut's famous trip to Puntland: or in

Wars such as King Ramses III, who used huge warships in his wars against the Sea Peoples; There were also funeral boats to carry the body of the king on his pilgrimage to Abydos

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  As for religious boats, they are boats

They are symbolic boats that were placed in the sanctuary of the sanctuary of the temple for the statue of the goddess to be transported on the shoulders of the priests during his visit to other temples

The temple was transported by the statue of the god on the shoulders of the priests when he visited other temples

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One of the most amazing examples of boats that was found now is the Khufu boat, which is located in a museum in Giza, and it is from

The most important archaeological finds in Egypt and the world in our modern era, and it is considered the second largest wooden boat after

Discovery of the boats of the first and second families in Abydos, which is the oldest wooden boat found inside a pit

Deep and the boat is very large, reaching 45 meters in length and about 5 meters in width in the center. Was when

It was found disassembled, but the great restorer Haji Ahmed Youssef bred the boat parts with ropes and wood

Adored

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The amazing discovery of Abydos ships buried next to the Shounet al-Zebib cemetery is evidence that the rites of burial of royal ships (especially pilgrimage ships) in ancient Egypt next to the tombs of kings are very ancient rituals that may go back to the beginning or before the dynastic era in Egypt, then it developed and reached its climax in The era of King Khufu, the owner of the largest pyramid and its great compound (the sun complex), which was found by Dr. Kamal Al-Malakh in the fifties of the last century

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The American researcher John Anthony West believes that the size of the sun boat (Khufu boat) is very large and exaggerated for sailing the Nile. Sailing on the Nile does not require a boat of this magnitude, and the dimensions of the Khufu boat are the dimensions of a ship constructed to sail on the high seas

This is evidence that the ancient Egyptians had crossed the thickets of the vast seas and discovered faraway places on different continents