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By the time King Tut was laid to rest around 1,300 B.C., Egyptian kings simply had model-sized boats entombed with them for their journey to the underworld, along with many other lavish treasures.
Brenden Sener creates a miniature model with four mirrors and heat lamp, which proves Archimedes' theory is plausible.
Down on the Nile, the crew will visit with a modern Egyptian boat builder and then float models of ancient boats, including a catamaran and a wide-bodied barge.
New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...
The Maritime Revival Project, established in 2017, aims to resurrect Iraq's naval traditions by recreating models used in ancient Iraqi civilizations, including Sumerian and Babylonian, based on ...
An inheritor of ancient boat making techniques By XU LIN/HU MEIDONG (China Daily) Updated: 2015-06-20 07:31. ... He used a boat model and small paddlers to show how it works.
The sophistication of five ancient canoes is changing how archeologists understand the first Neolithic farming ... a team of Italian and Spanish archeologists analyzed five dugout canoes — boats ...
View of the boat during the process of excavation. Archaeologists from Charles University in Prague have begun to excavate a funerary boat that dates back to the Third or Fourth Dynasty of ancient ...
Anchoring Bangladesh's Ancient Boatbuilding Technology. Preservationist Runa Khan is saving her country's wooden sailboat heritage, which dates back 3,000 years.
A 4,600-year-old intact wooden boat bearing the name of Egyptian pharaoh, Khufu, was transported to a new museum about 7 kilometers away from Cairo's Great Pyramid.
All that’s left today of an ancient boat discovered in 2018 in what was formerly Uruk is the bitumen, black tar that once coated its framework of reeds, palm leaves, or wood.