On February 5, local time, the Egyptian Pyramid Online website quoted Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Cultural Relics, as saying that the former site of the SunShip Museum located on the south side of the Pyramid of Khufu in Giza Province, Egypt, has been demolished, and the southern corner of the pyramid, which was previously obscured by the museum, has been exposed. It is also the first time in decades that the full picture of the Pyramid of Khufu has been seen to the public.
△ Panoramic view of the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
△ The former site of the Egyptian Sun Ship Museum
In 1954, Egyptian archaeologists discovered and excavated the first Khufu Sun Ship on the south side of Khufu's Pyramid. In 1982, the SunShip Museum was inaugurated and opened to the public near the site of its excavation. In August 2021, the sun ship that buried the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Khufu was moved from its old site to the Great Egyptian Museum. Vaziri said the sunship was "one of the oldest large-scale wooden artifacts in human history" and that the museum's site was demolished because it obscured the panorama of the Pyramid of Khufu and would be exhibited in a special exhibition hall after it was moved to the Great Egyptian Museum.