Ancient Egyptian Ships and Shipping

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Excerpt from Ancient Egyptian Ships and Shipping: A DissertationStructurally speaking, all boats known to have been employed by the ancient Egyptians may be divided into two classes: reed boats, and boats built of wooden planks.There is no evidence that boats of hide or bark ever existed in Egypt. There is a positive reason for believing that the Egyptians never learned to make them, in the fact that their wooden ships never had ribs, if the Egyptians had once learned to build the necessary wooden frame for a hide or bark boat, it would be remarkable that they never used a similar wooden frame in the construction of a wooden boat.Dugouts may occasionally have been imported into Egypt - for instance, from inner Africa. This is a possible explanation of the first dynasty model, Abydos, II, Plate III. But even that model may not represent a dugout: the shortness of the Open space may be due to the fact that the model is of dugout construction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.