Egypt's gem of a museum gears up for grand opening ... The GEM will also showcase the 44-metre-long cedarwood solar barque, buried near the Great Pyramid around 2,500 BC. Another boat, still ...

the solar barque, or the pharaoh's ship. Realizing the treasure he had on his hands, Mallakh took 20 months to remove the boat's 1,224 separate pieces. Then a fellow Egyptian, Hag Ahmed Youssef ...