Khufu

The restoration of Khufu Ship relics will be carried out along with King Tutankhamun's golden coffin, which was also transferred to the GEM last week.

He later toured the proposed site for the transfer of Khufu boats and instructed officials to deploy engineering and restoration affairs experts for the project, the report added.

Many believe the boat was built for Khufu, the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of theOld Kingdom of Egypt.

DUBAI: Today's Google Doodle marks the 65th anniversary of the discovery of the Khufu Ship, one of the world's oldest and largest boats, found in Egypt.

A study published on the journal Nature described the discovery of an unexplored empty space of around 30-meters, within the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

It was constructed under the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, between 2509 and 2483BC.

Made under the watch of the Pharaoh Khufu and completed in around 2550 BC, the Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu's Pyramid, served the world's tallest man-made construction for thousands of years.

Over 4500 years ago, the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu ordered a pyramid built as his royal tomb.

Sneferu was succeeded by his son Khufu, renowned for the Great Pyramid at Giza, which - at 138m high - was a wonder of the ancient world, BBC reported.

When it opens next year, visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum will be able to see the Great Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Menkaure through the glass wall that fronts the galleries.

| THE Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and weighs as much as 16 Empire State buildings.

1 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (1955) EARLY Joan Collins movie about tombs and pyramids which boasted the advertising line: "Her blood stained every stone of the pyramid." English actor Jack Hawkins played Pharaoh Khufu.

60 iconic structures are selected from the Great Pyramid of Khufu in 2600bce to the Guggenheim Museum in the 1990s.

Our boat: Charon's vessel, or the Khufu ship, curved cedar bow