Cairo Sights

Solar Barque Museum

#98 of 408 things to do in Cairo

#1228 of 7381 things to do in Africa

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  • Address
    • The Giza Plateau
  • Price
    • adult/student E£50/25
  • Hours
    • 9am-4pm Oct-May, 9am-5pm Jun-Sep

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South of the Great Pyramid is the fascinating Solar Barque Museum. Five pits near the Great Pyramid of Khufu contained the pharaoh’s solar barques (boats), which may have been used to convey the mummy of the dead pharaoh across the Nile to the valley temple, from where it was brought up the causeway and into the tomb chamber. The barques were then buried around the pyramid to provide transport for the pharaoh in the next world.

 

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