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The boat beneath the pyramid : King Cheops' royal ship
- Title
- The boat beneath the pyramid : King Cheops' royal ship / Nancy Jenkins ; photographs by John Ross ; special consultant, Ahmed Youseff Moustafa.
- Author
- Jenkins, Nancy Harmon
- Publication
- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DT62.S55 J46 1980 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 184 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- In 1954, a young Egyptian archaeologist, clearing a site just south of the Great Pyramid at Giza, discovered a great papyriform ship, built for a king and then dismantled and buried at the height of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. This book tells the story of this Royal Ship--its discovery, excavation and reconstruction. The author also addresses who built the ship and why, how it has survived intact for so long, and what connection it may have had with the age-old Egyptian myth of the Sun-god, eternally journeying across the heavens in the Reed Float. This book is also the story of Ahmed Youssef Moustafa, Chief Restorer of the Department of Antiquities, who almost single-handedly put back together the 1,223 pieces of the ship.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 175-176.
- Contents
- The pyramid-builders -- Discovery -- Excavation -- Construction and reconstruction -- Ships and ship-building in the Old Kingdom -- Death, religion and survival.
- ISBN
- 0030570611
- 9780030570612
- LCCN
- 79027466
- OCLC
- ocm05894021
- 5894021
- SCSB-22326
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library