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• July 19: Tourists visit the ancient Pharaos king Cheops' first solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt. Cheops' second solar boat is now displayed through a camera put inside the boat which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The solar boats are believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago.
• July 19: Zahi Hawas, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), right, and Japanese Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura, left, from Waseda Universty in Japan, display for the first time the Pharaoh Cheops' second solar boat through a camera put inside the boat pit at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface and is believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago.
• July 19: Belgium tourists visit the ancient Pharaoh king Cheops' first solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt. Cheops' second solar boat is displayed through a camera put inside the boat which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. Solar boats are believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago
• July 19: Belgian tourists surround a small modern wooden model of the first Pharos king Cheops' second solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt. Cheops' second solar boat is displayed through a camera put inside the boat which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The solar boats are believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago.
• July 19: Japanese technicians Yamashita and Kuro Koshi control an underground camera which display for the first time Pharaoh Cheops' second solar boat below the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface. The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.
• July 19: Japanese technicians Yamashita and Kuro Koshi, control an underground camera which displays for the first time Pharaoh Cheops' second solar boat below the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface. The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.
• July 19: Zahi Hawas, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and Japanese Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura, right, from Waseda Universty in Japan, display for the first time the Pharaoh Cheops' second solar boat through a camera put inside the boat pit at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, which tourists will be able to see for the first time without the pit having to be uncovered again. The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface and is believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago.

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