The Sun Boats of King Khufu

The sun boats are a funerary boat that was made 5,000 years ago, around 2800 BC. They are wooden boats made of cedarwood and were found disassembled, and they put the bodies of kings on them at the time of the funeral ceremonies and called the first boat the Khufu boat.
It was found in the south of the pyramid in 1954, which is mistakenly known as the “Sun Boat”, as its discoverers linked it to the two sun boats designated for day and night trips, undertaken by the god “Ra”, the sun god, and the “Khufu boat” had been found. It was disassembled in its pit, and after years of work and restoration, it was reinstalled as it was originally, to be 46 meters long. A large museum for the boat was built where it was found in the south of the pyramid, and there are still other boats in the ground on the southern side of the pyramid.
It seems that these boats were used for funerary and worldly purposes and that they are not related to the sun boats, and it is possible that one of them was used to transport the king’s body from his palace on the east bank of the Nile to the pyramid area on the west bank of it.
The second was used in the king’s coronation ceremony, some of whose ceremonies were taking place on the bank of the Nile, and the rest of the boats were used in the king’s trips to the holy places in Egypt.
– In 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal Al-Malakh discovered the two southern pits. The eastern crater took out the parts of the sun boat and reassembled them by Egyptian experts, which lasted about 10 years. The second pit was examined in 1987, and it was found that it contained the parts of a disassembled whole sun boat. And it is planned to be installed in the future as well. The first sun boat is displayed in the sun boat museum next to the pyramid, and visitors can view it.