DUBAI: Today's Google Doodle marks the 65th anniversary of the discovery of the Khufu Ship, one of the world's oldest and largest boats, found in Egypt. Google Doodle remembers discovery of Egyptian Khufu Ship The Great Pyramid was built by the pharaoh Khufu who belonged to the fourth dynas...
Khufu created the most elaborate of the funerary boats. Hisship, made of tamarix (salt cedar), is credited with being the most famous of these boats. This ship was fully intact at the time it was discovered. It had been sealed into a pit at the Great Pyramid at Giza around 2,500 BC...