Pharaoh Khufu’s boat comes back to life 

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​ Visitors to Egypt’s new Grand Egyptian Museum are getting a rare front-row seat to history as conservators publicly reassemble a 4,500-year-old boat belonging to Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The 42-meter-long cedarwood vessel, discovered in 1954 and made up of 1,650 pieces, is expected to take about four years to complete. It was […]  

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