The Egyptian funerary boat on display at the Ure Museum is a typical tomb offering from ancient Egypt ... a trip across their River Nile, which ran down the centre of their country, joining ...
The Nile was Ancient Egypt's superhighway and was always busy with boats carrying people and goods back and forth to all thesettlements along the banks of the river. The reeds that lined the sides ...
For many years, archaeologists have thought that ancient Egyptians must have used a nearby waterway to transport materials such as the stone blocks needed to build the pyramids on the river.
This ceremonial boat, likely placed near the pyramid for spiritual purposes, highlights the ancient Egyptians’ belief in an afterlife journey for their pharaohs. Made of high-quality cedar wood ...
An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these massive ‘river groynes’ reveal an exceptionally long-lived form of ...