Excavation of Egyptian boat by Silvia Szarkova

Another work on Egyptian field, another excavation to our history, another dream of archaeologist to reveal the secrets kept by Pyramids… Egypt is a place where hundreds of archaeologists try to find something interesting with a great value to earn fame and power. Also Egypt is a place where hundreds of archaeologists end up with empty hands without fame, without money, without hope, but with the feeling of emptiness. This story is not about one of them hoped for fortune in fact earned nothing; this story is about people who have just started to dream the big Egyptian dream and who still believe dreams can come true.

Well, yes. There is another excavation in Egypt. There will be. Archaeologists and scholars will excavate vast fragments of ancient Egyptian wooden boat buried in an underground chamber just few steps away from Great pyramid in Giza.

It is interesting, that the boat is a sister ship of one similar boat removed in 1945 from another chamber. Experts suppose both boats were meant to transfer pharaoh who had the pyramid done in afterlife.

Starting on Saturday of previous week, tourists can view the images taken from the second boat, which is 4, 500 years old. It is possible thanks to a camera placed to a hole in the chamber’s limestone ceiling. Tourists can now preview almost whole boat pit.

Excavation could possibly start from November, to investigate around 600 simple pieces of timber, said Professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan’s Waseda University, who is one of scholars taking part in this great project. Lot of luck and patience!


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_boat;_ylt=AhODAjzy9mEptwpcKcjgL5Ks0NUE

by Silvia Szarkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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