Ancient Egyptian boat to be reassembled

CAIRO: Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft.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.Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images of the inside of the second boat pit from a camera inserted through a hole in the chambers limestone ceiling.