Explore a Pharaoh's Boat
Oars
Each of the Khufu boat's 12 oars was carved from a single piece of
wood. Ten oars are lashed amidships ahead of the deckhouse, though
this positioning is arbitrary: where, or even whether, the oars were
affixed is unknown. A final pair attaches to the stern as steering
oars. Steering oars such as these appear in funerary carvings and
paintings (see final image), and on ship models, right into the New
Kingdom, a thousand years and more after Khufu's time.