A Boat Made Of Papyrus Reeds. The wooden boats were modeled after the papyrus boats. Papyrus is different from paper because papyrus is a laminated material made from thinly cut strips from the stalk of Cyprus Papyrus plant.
They had flat bottoms no keels and square sterns. From the Tomb of Idu in the Giza Necropolis Cairo Egypt. Often used as traditional fishing boats they are still used in a few places around the world though they have generally been replaced with planked boats.
Detail from a funerary papyrus.
New and used models for sale. Because the reeds were bundled together the ends of the boat curved up. The RA Expeditions 1969-70 Thor Heyerdahl continued his research on ancienct navigation and turned his attention to the ancient reed-boats made of papyrus. Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI.
