Overview
- Restorers installed the first plank in view of visitors and media, lifting it into the prepared frame with a small crane.
- The 42-meter vessel is being reconstructed beside its already assembled twin that is on display inside the museum.
- Officials date the second boat’s discovery to 1985 near the Great Pyramid, with extraction starting in 2012 after years of delay.
- Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy called the effort one of the most important restoration projects of the 21st century.
- The Grand Egyptian Museum, opened in November, houses about 50,000 artifacts including Tutankhamun’s treasures and is expected to boost tourism.