You can smell the past by Barbora Misakova

The past. Things and incidents which happened many years ago. All those strange people living hundreds, thousands years ago. Their strange faces and names. Lot of unknown stories and just a few famous stories. Those are shining like yellow dandelions in the grass. They are shining like a diamonds. The past – that period which is over but is still living with us somehow. Why it is that we are so fascinated? Fascinated by the times which are gone, which never come back, which never repeat. Why are we cannot stop listening the same old stories and legends, why are we sitting without a move on the chair every time we are reading some myth? And what about old fragments of material world? Little pieces of some plate or bowl, old sword, and old smelly chambers! All of them were connected with someone. With a person with his or her own destiny. And even though it was just an ordinary men or woman, we are just caught. Caught in the past. Just for a while. So imagine you, ordinary workman, find the 4,500-year-old vessel dig in the ground. In the old chamber. How would you feel? Hard to say, I know. I was fascinated so much, and I was just reading about it. Just the idea that such an old boat was found and it is going to be excavated again hold me spellbound. Around 600 pieces of timber will be removed in November and all put together to rebuild an ancient narrow vessel which measured 142 feet. Egyptologists want also to find out if the boat was used or it was just a symbolic funerary boat. Yahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, believes that solar symbols which were found inside the second pit are the evidence that both boats (the buried one and one already displayed in the museum) were supposed to carry Khufu's soul in the afterlife. If it was used in real or it was just a symbolic vehicle only time and research will show. By that time we must be just patiently waiting till the boat is reassembled.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_ancient_boat;_ylt=AkeMCDxnk6nQjnSmG63NdOqs0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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