"Nova" Building Pharaoh's Ship (TV Episode 2010) Poster

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3/10
One supposition built upon another....
planktonrules26 April 2012
This documentary is a long string of 'what ifs' and by the time it's over, you aren't really sure what has been proved. The show begins with the notion that the ancient Egyptians were great sailors. Their evidence is a bit scant--and the greatest evidence of sailing throughout the Mediterranean seems to be a relief in a tomb. And, IF they were great sailors, then HOW they did this is very, very vague as well. Again and again, the ship builders and scientists had to make guesses. Eventually, they are able to build a seemingly seaworthy craft. However, I ask just what has been proved? After all, with guess upon guess upon guess, it's really not at all clear that they can say anything other than modern folks can make a boat they think MIGHT have been like an ancient boat. It's all vaguely interesting and that's all.

By the way, early in the film, they questioned where the ancient land of Punt was located. Their answer seemed rather lame--saying '...could have' to the South of Egypt. Yes, it also could have been to the East, West or North!
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4/10
Flax "Linen" AND "Boat Worms" Teredo Navalis = Northern Coast of East Atlantic Continental Europe
Neil_Sandidge_Nile_EdenAgs16 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
About 37 minutes remaining.

"Really a very complex puzzle." -- the complex.. is a "mental complex" or "block in your head" that starts from slot car model experience and refuses to basis of your boat on the Pharaoh's real world existing boat.

"Since no one has built a ship like this in thousands of years." ~ No one ever built a ship anything like what you designed. It is not based on any historical evidence of comprehension. Not only did you not make a scale replica of one of the 5 ships that exit from Giza. This thing old people test in young people called reading comprehension. You two put zig/\zags in the wood like 2nd graders, with no notion that they are stop-points or notches to keep the planks from stretching apart the ropes holding them together. From the pictures of rope and notches in 5 seconds of film in this video I figured out the purpose of notches = stops at the working load limit of rope (Not the break limit, "working load" is ratios less, and it being a wet unsealed boarded the ropes will be multitudes stronger and swell tighter on the boards) mix in some ballast and stick to the flatter hull design of the real world existing examples.

About 35 minutes remaining.

"They did not bend wood. They carved it, just like a statue." -- Where does this profane woman get the idea they do not bend wood? Did she not see with her own eyes that Khufu Cheops is clearly a bent plank boat made 2,000-3,000 BC? On what stupidity does she Titanic this boat as not being allowed to flex?

"They've got to attach it together in a completely different way from, modern boats." – They've got to attach it together in a completely different way than, the ancient boats too!! Where is there a dead fish spine type keel in Giza? You are making a dead- turtle-shell as the spine of your boat. In no way is this like any Pharaoh's boat. You are using the fresh water boat designs of Europe that sank and tipped over in rapids and oceans.

About 33 minutes remains. It looks exactly like modern rope. "About 38 Hundred years ago."

Hopeless.. Why is the rope being shown, not the rope that was in the pits of Giza with the 5 boats they found buried next to the pyramids? From the looks of it, at least based on the anchors, then I would be guessing 800 AD to 1800AD from small net fishing dingy to large merchant ship, based on the difference in anchor sizes possibly European like the ones in Florida by the Spanish. -- Do you have carbon dating? With so many samples it would be forgivable for a single glass slide to be carbon dated. Why are you just smiling and saying it looks modern, but is

You do understand the caves are not of the same design and skill set as the hieroglyphs on a stone outside of them. – If the caves were not sealed, then it is impossible that the sea mist did not destroy them in 1,000 years.

"A pile of Wooden Crates…." – so you…. You've never heard of grave robbers…. And seem to think wooden crates…. Well have you ever seen a wooden crate in a pyramid that was not the property of a thief stealing and selling history, usually to people who were once Vatican Faith church goers?

Kathryn Bard…Boston "Vatican" Massachusetts… An inscription on a "box" (not a "Crate" as mentioned before). "The wonderful things of punt." You do understand….that looks like stone, not wood….and why would you think ONLY People from Britain, can read and write in English? There is not logic to a celebratory etching, except for someone who stole the pharaohs punt treasures to sell over sea's. Find out where those ropes were grown. Get plant DNA and you MAY find your exporter/thief. The locations tells you some-one was robbing Luxor from this point so that they did not pass by the people in Cairo and the Government of Egypt. We just moved to a time after the French Napoleon chronicles of the wealth in Egypt, a time when European Grave Raiders must have used this coast for smuggling. About 32 minutes remaining. Hatshepsut "successfully gathered" them from Poont/Punt…. Successfully gathered…. Yet, they are WHERE? Again is no one aware the Vatican faithful are thieves?

About 30 minutes remaining. So you found the remains of an ocean going ship that stranded the smugglers. And for some reason assumes the smuggler's ships were of Egypt Design or Construction? See many tree near that beach did you? -- Have you bothered to identify the species of wood or compared the growth rings to the rain patterns of Europe port cities and boats? So you drew a wedge on top of a picture that was not there?

"….Khufu River Boat…."?? Who the hell makes a 146 foot river boat? Have you tried sailing a 16-28 foot boat around the bends most rivers have? And yet, you seem to think a 146 foot Yacht is a river boat?

"Intent on following the evidence…." of a European boat hull crashed and stranded with its smugglers on the shore of Egypt?
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