Solar Boats

Khufu Boats

Solar boats were wooden boats made of cedar wood, they were found disassembled. The first one who called them solar boats was the journalist “Kamal al-Malakh“. The archaeologists varied about its name and, as its uses, it was probably a funerary boat made from 5000 years ago in 2800 BC when King Khufu, the king of Egypt, died. 

His body was mummified and the funerary ceremony was performed.

 His body was placed on these boats with the priests to visit Helioules, Saiss and others before his burial. 

And then these boats moved to the royal cemetery in Giza where he was buried in the Great Pyramid, then these boats dissociated and buried in a hole south of the pyramid and the name of King Khufu put on it, Is its real name solar boats or Khufu boats?!

Khufu Boats

How they discover these boats?

Inspector of Antiquities of the pyramid area “Mohamed Zaki Nur” and civil engineer, who is cleaning the area of the pyramid, “Kamal Malakh” and the supervisor of the cleaning works ” Dr Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr”, and after the completion of the cleaning works, suddenly traces of mud brick wall appeared and after reaching the bottom of the wall 42 A stone piece appeared divided into two groups, separated by a three-meter gap in a stone room.

Although Kamal Malakh was the first to see these boats, it was found by chance, not by conducting a scientific discovery study, preceded by archaeological research, and the conditions served him as there was no except him at that time in the workplace.