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However, it bears some signs of having been used in water, and it is possible that the ship was either a funerary "barge" used to carry the king's embalmed body from Memphis to Giza, or even that Khufu himself used it as a "pilgrimage ship" to visit holy places and that it was then buried for him to use in the afterlife.
The boats were found during excavations on the plain of Dahshur in 1894 and 1895 by French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan. [2] His original excavation report recorded six boats; however, later reports by de Morgan stated there were only five. [1]
The history and function of the ships are not precisely known. They are most commonly created as a "solar barge", a ritual vessel to carry the resurrected king with the sun god Ra across the heavens. This is a common theme in the Pyramid Texts, and these buried boats might be a real-life equivalent of solar barges. Similarly, another ...
Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (also known as Funeral of a Mummy, French: Les Funérailles d'une momie) is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Frederick Arthur Bridgman. It was painted between 1876 and 1877 and is considered his most acclaimed painting. Since 1990, it has been exhibited in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Speed Art Museum.
The following is a list and assessment of sites and places associated with King Arthur and the Arthurian legend in general. Given the lack of concrete historical knowledge about one of the most potent figures in British mythology, it is unlikely that any definitive conclusions about the claims for these places will ever be established; nevertheless it is both interesting and important to try ...
The Zibello, a 160-foot barge that transported wood in World War II and sank in 1943, is usually hidden beneath the Po's waters, the Associated Press reports. Now, the river's water levels are so ...
The first state barge carried the standard and guidon supported by naval officers and heralds, while the second carried Nelson's banner and great banner and heraldic emblems. Following the funeral barge was the fourth state barge, which carried the chief mourner, Admiral Parker, together with the six assistant mourners, all senior naval officers.
Authorities responded to a report of an “out of control vessel” in the Cooper River near the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge. Authorities identified the ship as the MSC Michigan Seven, a 997-foot ...