One of the boat pits at Abu Rawash, carved into the bedrock near the ruined pyramid. Similar to the famous Khufu ship pit at Giza, these boat-shaped trench
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One of the boat pits at Abu Rawash, carved into the bedrock near the ruined pyramid. Similar to the famous Khufu ship pit at Giza, these boat-shaped trenches were designed to hold funerary boats for the pharaoh's journey in the afterlife. Fragments of a cedar boat were discovered in one of the pits during excavation.
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