#sun barque

It is day no. 2 and today we go back a long way to the time of seafaring. This time the journey also takes us a little into the underworld - with Khufu's sun barque from c. 2500 B.C.

More about her below

Khufu's sun barque, c. 2500 B.C.

In 1954 the great sun barque of Khufu, ca. 2500 B.C., was discovered on the south side of the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), it was almost intact, although dismantled into 1224 parts, as was a second example. However, there is still no agreement about the purpose of these ships. One theory is that the body of the pharaoh Kheops was brought across the Nile and then buried with him. The other version is that the king made a pilgrimage with the ship and thus turned a means of transport into a holy relic. The most recent version is that Khufu did not use the boat, but a son and then laid it down as an offering to his father.