Workers lifting up one of the blocks covering the boat pit (top); Hawass ...
The north side of King Khufu's Great Pyramid, which dominates a Giza plateau that has been all but deserted since the January Revolution five months ago, was crowded again last Thursday as foreign and Egyptian journalists, photographers and TV crews armed with digital recorders and cameras awaited the arrival of Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass and the head of the archaeological and scientific team of Waseda University, Sakuji Yoshimura.
They were assembled to witness the lifting of the 41 blocks that have covered the pit of Khufu's second solar boat for the last 4,500 years, and the announcement of the start of the second phase of the boat's restoration project.
In a hanger built to cover the boat pit, a dozen workmen were helping Egyptian and Japanese scientists and archaeologists in white uniforms, yellow helmets and white masks to wrap the first stone block, weighing 16 tonnes, and to lift it aside so as to start uncovering Khufu's second boat.
The on-site team has developed a new technique to lift the blocks. They first inserted a chemically-treated piece of wood beneath the cover stone and then lifted it.
When Hawass and Yoshimura arrived they took journalists to a neighbouring hanger where a small LCD screen showed scenes of the boat in situ and the operation to lift it.
The boat was discovered in 1954 by Egyptian architect and archaeologist Kamal El-Mallakh, together with Zaki Nour. At the time El-Mallakh and Nour found two boat pits during routine cleaning on the south side of the Great Pyramid. The first pit was found under a roof of 41 limestone slabs, each weighing almost 20 tonnes, with the fact that the three westernmost of the slabs were much smaller than the others leading them to be interpreted as keystones. On removing one of the slabs El-Mallakh and Nour saw a cedar boat, completely dismantled but arranged in the semblance of its finished form. Also inside the pit were layers of mats, ropes, instruments made of flint and some small pieces of white plaster along with 12 oars, 58 poles, three cylindrical columns and five doors.
The boat was removed piece by piece under the supervision of the master of restorers Ahmed Youssef, who spent more than 20 years restoring and reassembling the boat. The task resembled the fitting together of a giant jigsaw puzzle, and the completed boat is now on display at Khufu's Solar Boat Museum on the Giza plateau. The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders on the shores of the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.
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One scholar, Vassil Dobrev, has theorised that the two boat pits on the south side of the Great Pyramid were built by Djedefre as a gesture of piety connected with the establishment of the local divine cult of his father, founder of the royal
It has also helped settle a controversy about the only metal known to exist in the pyramid, and its images show what might be a door leading to another hidden chamber. The pyramid is thought to have been built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu,
Made of 1224 components and about 142 feet long, Khufu's first ship was fully reconstructed in 1971 and the model now stands resurrected in a specially built museum near the Great Pyramid. While evidence of a second pit near to the first one was noted
Rob Dicker~Sun-Times Media • The Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt stands 481 feet tall, and is made up of about 2.3 million stone blocks that weigh 2.5 to 15 tons each. • An estimated 20000 to 30000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over 80 years.
On 25 May, New Scientist was first to reveal some exciting findings from an innovative robotic exploration of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. A robot built at Leeds University in the UK, called Djedi, explored a mysterious tunnel thought to lead to
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2.The pyramid is lined up exactly with the magnetic north pole.
3.The pyramid lies 31 degrees north and 31 degrees west, longitude and latitude.
4.The height of the pyramid (481 ft) is 1/1,000,000,000 of the distance of Earth from the sun
5. The great pyramid consists of 100,000 stones. Some stones up to 500 tones. It would take 40 of our strongest planes to lift it.
6. Nasa Discovered pyramids on mars.
7. The pyramid had really looooooooooooong stairs that leads to nothing but spaces….no rooms found at the top of that stair…. sooo probably the ALIENS used that stair to come down and up from their "Undefined Flying object"
8. There was a metal found at the Great Pyramid of egypt… where it doesn't get rashes when it gets wet from the rain…. so that means its a new kind of metal that came from those ALIENS…
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