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  2. Felucca - Wikipedia

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    A felucca[ a ] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia. However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one. They are usually able to board ten ...

  3. Ancient Egyptian royal ships - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian royal ships. The Khufu ship, an intact full-size vessel that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. Picture shows the original on display in the Giza Solar boat museum. Several ancient Egyptian solar ships and boat pits were found in many ancient Egyptian sites ...

  4. Khufu ship - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt. The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500 BC, during the Fourth Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Like other buried Ancient Egyptian ships, it was part of the extensive grave goods intended for use in the ...

  5. Abydos boats - Wikipedia

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    The Abydos boats are the remnants of a group of ancient royal Egyptian ceremonial boats found at an archaeological site in Abydos, Egypt. Discovered in 1991, excavation of the Abydos boats began in 2000 at which time fourteen boats were identified. [1] They are located alongside the massive mudbrick structure known as Shunet El Zebib ...

  6. Barque - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Egypt, barques, referred to using the French word as Egyptian hieroglyphs were first translated by the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, were a type of boat used from Egypt's earliest recorded times and are depicted in many drawings, paintings, and reliefs that document the culture. Transportation to the afterlife was believed to ...

  7. Ancient navies and vessels - Wikipedia

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    Model of Ancient Egyptian ship. Drawing of Ancient Egyptian ship with a sail. Ships and boats were an important part of the ancient Egyptian's life. [1] The earliest boats in Egypt were made during the time of the Old Kingdom where they were used along the Nile River. Because of the lack of wood, boats were made with bundled papyrus reeds.

  8. “History’s Mysteries”: 50 Remarkable Photos And Facts About ...

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    #47 A 5,000-Year-Old Wooden Boat, Believed To Have Been Used By The Pharaohs Of Ancient Egypt, Was Unearthed Near The Saqqara Necropolis This remarkable discovery sheds new light on the maritime ...

  9. Ancient maritime history - Wikipedia

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    Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost.