The Sun Boat is the most complete and spectacular ship ever discovered in the world. The discovery also unveiled the mystery of how the stones of the pyramid were transported.

In 1954, a large ship made of high-quality Lebanese fir was excavated south of the Pyramids of Giza. The ship was an ancient ship used by Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu during his lifetime, so it was called the Khufu, also called the "Sun Boat" ". Over the years, the ship has been given more symbolic meaning. Nowadays, the ship seems to have a more reasonable explanation. It is a crane used to build pyramids.

This ship is a rare asymmetrically built vessel. The structure of the bow extends higher than the stern, enabling it to tilt and rise about 5 meters. The entire design process of the Huff ship is designed to transport objects to high places. Think of the ship as a two-armed bar with a variable axis of rotation. Let the ship be immersed in water, because the shape of the hollow interior enables the same lift to be generated, which makes it easy to handle the 10,000 tons of megaliths that build the pyramid.

The basic structure of the Khufu ship has two necessary things, using cedar from Lebanon as wood, and the other is linen from Egypt. Ancient Egyptian ship carpenters made it into boats. Flax itself is a strong material and is not easily broken. The rope made from it can show good toughness. The ancient linen rope with a diameter of twelve centimeters or thirteen centimeters can withstand several tons of tension.

Khufu's structure is actually similar to today's floating cranes. The cranes floated on the water at the submerged construction site, and they carried a few tons of stones to where the workers needed them. To this day, we are still transporting giant objects using similar principles.

Although the construction of the ancient Egyptians was not very accurate, the use of ships as cranes was indeed a feat of the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids. Editor / Zhao Yongjing