The great pyramid is not artificial mountain of rocks but is faced with natural stones rock. Only and could be built, the most gigantic tomb in the history of mankind. The mummy of Pharaoh brought to the place of eternal sleep "sun boat of Khufu"

Found it in 1955 in the trench under the pyramid in the disassembled for 650 parts. To the Assembly of the ship has left more than ten years.

Embalmed body of the Lord and extracted from his insides were sent to the last journey on the Nile. Then, according to the beliefs, Pharaoh went in another, eternal life to another, the Lord is the God of the sun RA on another celestial Nile. The rook was used for posthumous travel Pharaoh. At least according to Egyptologists, and no one questioned this function floating "hearse".

However, problematic Dating findings. Classics of Egyptology believe that the great pyramid was built in the XVII century BC In the 1980s, spent a radiocarbon analysis of wood, which built the boat of Khufu. He gave a stunning result: 3400 BC Almost a thousand years older!

"Punt" for the giants?

I walk along the 43-metre boat, placed in the hangar at the South side of the pyramid. Lift my head, looking fore beam that looks like a steam pipe, so Grand, with sharp a break, fodder and timber... can't believe that this colossus is able not that swim - float.

Five pairs rowing oars fixed rope rowlocks a large angle. Overboard hangs 7-metre beam, roll over which the average person can't afford. The diameter of the oars even in its narrowest part is not less than 12 see to Clasp his hand this Telegraph pole was able except that the giant.

The constructor of 1224 details

Accompanied me Professor of the Academy of arts Punin, a lot of time walking around the boat, agreed: it is doubtful that it took to the water. Andrey Lvovich, do not believe in the existence of giants, decided that the boat Pharaoh was purely ritual character. Thinking of the Egyptians was symbolic. And rook could only symbolize the navigation on the celestial Nile.

But if the rook exclusively ritual, it is much easier it was to make it from one block of wood, covered with gold and placed in the tomb? It would not be carved complicated bends paddles of Titanic proportions, cut clever sleeve difficult to handle acacia and weboveho tree, to do such gaps between the cedar that, raspahnuv in water, wood "ate" the butt, but left the room for movement...

Finally, if the boat is just ritual layout, why to do it from 1224 separate parts and give it a cyclopean dimensions? Let us not forget that especially for this vessel stonemasons hollowed out in the rock a trench length of 35 meters and laid on top rook multi-ton slabs. As found in other taranovyh the tombs of clay models funeral boats. And Cheops, you see, it took a "real".

However, the Swedish expert on antique shipping Bjorn Landstrom believes that the boat of Khufu was floating. Famous Thor Heyerdahl has outdone Swede: he believed that the boat could not only surf the Nile, but also the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

In the opinion of the researcher of the history and mythology of Ancient Egypt Victor Horikawa, rook Cheops could move only on the Nile from the South to the North, the river. And all 12 of the oars was used only for management, so they tilted almost perpendicular to the surface of the water.

Sailed whether the boat of Khufu on the Nile? The truth, as is often all that is connected with ancient civilizations, still in the fog.

And who came up with this civilization? It is not a fact that the Egyptian. The builders of the pyramids possessed such technologies, which today seem unthinkable...