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The Giza Solar boat museum was dedicated to display the reconstructed Khufu ship, a solar barque of pharaoh Khufu.It was constructed between 1961 and 1982, just a few meters from where the Khufu ship was found [1], on the southern side of the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau in Egypt [2]
The Khufu ship was put on public display in a specially built museum at the Giza pyramid complex in 1982; the museum was a small modern facility resting alongside the Great Pyramid. The first floor of the museum took the visitor through visuals, photographs, and writings on the process of excavating and restoring the boat.
The excavation of the second solar boat of Khufu was started in 1992 as a joint effort between an Egyptian-Japanese team. It was finished in 2021. [11] The ship will be reconstructed and displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum, which was created to house the first solar boat of Khufu and the second solar boat of Khufu. [12]
Solar barques were the vessels used by the sun god Ra in ancient Egyptian mythology. During the day, Ra was said to use a vessel called the Mandjet ( Ancient Egyptian : mꜥnḏt ) or the Boat of Millions of Years ( Ancient Egyptian : wjꜣ-n-ḥḥw ), and the vessel he used during the night was known as the Mesektet ( Ancient Egyptian : msktt ).
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Egypt Cairo: Giza pyramid complex: Egypt: c. 2500 BCE Solar barge: Giza Solar boat museum, then Grand Egyptian Museum [233] [234] USS Kidd [235] United States Louisiana: Baton Rouge: United States: 1943 Destroyer: Kiev [236] China Tianjin: Tianjin: Soviet Union: 1972 Aircraft carrier: Kingston II [237] United States Connecticut: Mystic: United ...