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Excavations
conducted in A.D. 1894 and 1895 by French archaeologist Jean-Jacques
de Morgan at the funerary complex of the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom
pharaoh Senwosret III on the plain of Dahshur revealed some unparalleled
finds which included five or six small boats. These boats provide a
unique opportunity in nautical archaeology—to study contemporaneous
hulls. Today, only four of the "Dahshur boats" can be located
with certainty; two are in the United States, one in the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History in Pittsburgh and one in the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago. The remaining two are on display in The Egyptian
Museum, Cairo.
Since their excavation these boats remained relatively inconspicuous
until the mid-1980s when a study of the two hulls in the United States
was conducted. However, the two boats in Cairo remained largely unpublished.
This site combines research, personal observation, and recording of
the Cairo boats over many years to reveal more unique characteristics
of the hulls and will facilitate a future study of the group as a whole.
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