Restoration experts at the Grand Egyptian Museum successfully the oldest boat in history, the monument was earlier extracted from the cemetery area of "Abu Rawash" - about 5 km from the Pyramids of Giza- along with other important excavations that goes back to the fourth family "Gadf Ra" son of King Khufu. In 1938 the French archaeologist Pierre Monte, stated in his archeological notes the he found a funerary boat wooden floor that belonged to First Dynasty nobles and listed it details. The remaining boat parts were later discovered by the French Institute's mission headed by Yann tristian in 2007. Archaeological expert Bassem Jihad, member of the archaeologists team involved in collecting the funeral boat parts said; the status of the parts discovered July 2012 were badly damaged and were closer to fragmentation like dirt, hence all parts were injected with Slelozy and acrylic chemicals to save and strengthen the original parts. Jihad added that radioactive carbon 14 technologies were used to determine the boat's history, which confirmed that it dates back to 2950 BC and confirmed that it belonged to King "Den" of the First Dynasty king. Archeological reports added that the vehicles original dimensions were about 11m x 120cm, however the residues found were 6.30m x 120cm. The restoration team worked on restoring the boat to its original form.
