Boat pits

Egypt / Giseh / El Badrashin /
 ancient civilization, ancient ruins

The wooden boats found by De Morgan, each about 10 m long, were buried beyond this outer wall, at the southwest corner.
A pair, GC 4925 and GC 4926, can be seen on display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Reisner, 1913: 83 − 7; Creasman, 2005).
Two others found their way into American collections: in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 31760 (Patch and Haldane, 1990) and in Chicago, FMNH 1842 in the Field Museum of Natural History (Ward, 2000: 83 − 102).
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Coordinates:   29°49'1"N   31°13'30"E
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