Barque funéraire.
Enfouie depuis environ 4500 ans.
La barque, en bois de cèdre, munie de tout son outillage – rames, cordes et cabine – comprenait 1 224 pièces détachées. Elle mesure 43,5 m de long, 5.9 m de large, sa proue s’élève à 5 m et sa poupe à 7 m. Remontée, elle est actuellement exposée dans le musée situé exactement à l’endroit où elle a été trouvée.
The Khufu ship is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It measures 43.6 m (143 ft) long and 5.9 m (19.5 ft) wide.
It was thus identified as the world’s oldest intact ship and has been described as “a masterpiece of woodcraft” that could sail today if put into water, lake and river.
However, the vessel may not have been designed for sailing (no rigging) or paddling (no room).
The ship was one of two rediscovered in 1954 by Kamal el-Mallakh – undisturbed since it was sealed into a pit carved out of the Giza bedrock. It was built largely of Lebanon cedar planking in the “shell-first” construction technique, using unpegged tenons of Christ’s thorn. The ship was built with a flat bottom composed of several planks, but no actual keel, with the planks and frames lashed together with Halfah grass, and has been reconstructed from 1,224 pieces which had been laid in a logical, disassembled order in the pit beside the pyramid.
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Sig Nordal 