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King KHUFU ship

The King Khufu ship is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It was the world's oldest intact ship and has been described as a masterpiece of woodcraft that could sail today if put into water.

Measures 143 ft long and 19.5 ft wide, the King Khufu ship was one of two rediscovered in 1954 by Kamal el-Mallakh – undisturbed since it was sealed into a pit carved out of the Giza bedrock. It was built largely of Lebanon cedar planking in the "shell-first" construction technique, using unpegged tenons of Christ's thorn. The ship was built with a flat bottom composed of several planks, but no actual keel.

The Khufu ship is known as a "solar barge", a ritual vessel to carry the resurrected king with the sun god Ra across the heavens. However, it bears some signs of having been used in water, and it is possible that the ship was either a funerary "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.

We build this primarily wood King Khufu ship model in two sizes:

- 24" long x 5" tall x 5" wide $1,930 Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $300 flat rate.

- 36" long x 7" tall x 7" wide $2,970 Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $400 flat rate. The photos are of this size. It was first commissioned by a family member of Mr. Kamal El Mallakh who discovered the real boat in 1954. 

Model is built per commission only. We require only a small deposit to start the process. Please click here for more details.

"Greetings,
Received the Khufu model and we are very pleased. Thank you. Interested in having you make a model of the Galilee boat as experts have envisioned it in original operation. Attached is a pix of the model in the Nof Ginosar Kibutz museum in Israel. Looking forward to receiving our Egyptian ship model that hopefully will be finished soon. Have more projects in mind including Philistine and Phoenician ship models for which we have some reference material. Thanks and blessings, Bill"