"barge" used to carry the king's embalmed body from Memphis to Giza, or even that Khufu himself used it as a "pilgrimage ship" to visit holy places and that it was then buried for him to use in the afterlife. It contained no bodies, unlike northern European ship burials.

Discovery and description

The ship was one of two rediscovered in 1954 by Kamal el-Mallakh--undisturbed since it was sealed into a pit carved

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