Archaeologists from Charles University in Prague have begun to excavate a funerary boat that dates back to the Third or Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, circa 2550 BC.

Saqqara reveals more of its hidden secrets with the unveiling of a trove of treasures found on January 17th, including ...

Revealed: 3,800-year-old Egyptian 'tableau' may depict funerary boats that carried Pharaoh Senusret III to his tomb. Archaeologists found 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats ...

Archeologists Find a Rare 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat The watercraft is so well preserved that it still has the pegs, ropes and plant fibers that once held it together ...

Fourteen funerary boats were discovered in the 2000 excavation, but these Abydos boats date back to almost 3,000 B.C., some 5,000 years old compared to the newer burial hall constructed closer to ...

Archaeologists originally mistook an ancient Egyptian funerary boat found at the cemetery of Abu Rawash for a wooden floor. The 20-foot boat dates to 2950 B.C.. Egyptologist Yann Tristant was ...

A French archaeological mission has unearthed wooden sheets of funerary boats that belong to an early Egyptian king’s era, dating back to 3000 BC in ...

Cairo - Czech archaeologists have unearthed an ancient funerary boat near the Abusir pyramids south of Cairo, officials said Monday, in a discovery that could shed light on shipbuilding in ancient ...