L'influence de l'espace de navigation nilotique et lagunaire sur la construction navale en Egypte ancienne Mohamed M. ABD EL-MAGUID (Departement Central des Antiquites Sous-Marines, Egyptian Ministry ofAntiquities - Center for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage , Alexandria University)

1. CIRILI. CITY, RIVER & LITTORAL
L’extension des infrastructures de transport en zones deltaïques
L'influence de l'espace de navigation nilotique et lagunaire
sur la construction navale en Egypte ancienne
Mohamed M. ABD EL-MAGUID
-Departement Central des Antiquites Sous-Marines,
Egyptian Ministry ofAntiquities
- Center for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural
Heritage , Alexandria University

2. Senefrou (ca. 2700) sent 40 ships to import wood from Lebanon.
Palermo stone

3. Naquada 3200 BC
•Early representations of boats

4. Naquada 3200 B.C.

5. The Gebel el-Arak Knife
Late pre-dynastic period
(3300 - 3200 BC)
south of Abydos

9. Transporting granite columns from Asswan
to Saqqara, Causeway of Ounas, 5th dynasty

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The Battle of the Delta, c. 1178 B.C. Ramesses III &
the Sea People - Medinet Habu.
• War and warships

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• Trade
Queen Hatshepsut’s (1508 BC - 1458 BC)
expedition to the land of Punt.

12. Fishing and hunting

13. Leisure

14. Religious

15. Funeral procession, Intef-Ikr Tomb,
12th dynasty

16. Models

17. Scrap wood with marine borers
Mersa Gawasis, Red Sea, 12th dynasti

18. Boat & ships navigating on a certain
water surface and adapted to its
characteristics.
-Environment
-Socio-economy
-Culture

20. 1- Rafts and papyrus boat

21. 2- Planks forms and sizes

22. Small trees – crooked - lots of branches

27. 3- Assemblage methods
Lashing boat
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28. Assemblage methods: Sewing

29. Assemblage methods: T&M

31. Assemblage methods: Stitches

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• Khufu funerary
boat (c. 2650 BC) is
made of imported
Lebanese cedar.

39. Dessin dal Pozzo
(coll. Windsor)
Kybaia

40. Hull forms

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Rudimentary Keel
Amenophis II warship

46. Hogging Truss
Abusir, pyramid complex of Sahure, Dyn 5

49. Syrian trading venture to Egypt,
Ken-Amoun Tomb, Thebes,
18th dynasty

50. The Ancient Towns of
Canopus & Heraklion

51. Egyptian harbours located at, or east of, the Nile Mouths
were constantly subject to silting as a result of annual Nile
sediment deposition.

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Schedia
SCHEDIA

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Satellite image 1996
Jomard – Jacotin 1809

54. Syrian trading venture to Egypt, Ken-Amoun Tomb,
Thebes, 18th dynasti

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