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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Ancient navies and vessels - Wikipedia

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    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. The boats were 25 meters long, two to three meters wide, and sixty centimeters ...

  5. Uluburun shipwreck - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the cargo as described by Pulak (1998). The Uluburun ship's cargo consisted mostly of raw materials that were trade items, which before the ship's discovery were known primarily from ancient texts or Egyptian tomb paintings. The cargo matches many of the royal gifts listed in the Amarna letters found at El-Amarna, Egypt.

  6. Felucca - Wikipedia

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    Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Discovery of 20 ancient Egyptian tombs reveals idols and ...

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    The tombs date to the late period, the last era of native-born ancient Egyptian rulers, which lasted from 664 to until the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., officials said.

  9. Hellenistic-era warships - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic-era warships. The famous 2nd century BC Nike of Samothrace, standing atop the prow of an oared warship, most probably a trihemiolia. From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships became increasingly large and heavy, including ...