July 22, 2008
rebuilt boat to the afterlife
600 fragments of a boat meant to ferry a pharaoh to the afterlife will be excavated from a pit in Egypt and reconstructed.
“In Egypt, almost everything real had its counterpart meaning or significance in the spiritual world. But there’s a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not,” Darnell said.
Those who argue the vessels may have touched water point to rope marks on the wood that could have been caused by the rope becoming wet and then shrinking as it dried.
But Hawass believes these were symbolic vessels, not funerary boats used to bring the pharaoh Khufu’s embalmed remains up the Nile from the ancient capital of Memphis for burial in the Great Pyramid, the oldest and largest of Giza’s pyramids.
The opposite of building a ship in a bottle.
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Sometimes it costs a lot to believe in afterlife )))
Ferry a pharaoh.