Sophisticated Egyptian wooden shipbuilding existed by the mid-fourth millennium BCE.

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"Sophisticated Egyptian wooden shipbuilding existed by the mid-fourth millennium BCE."

Research on the Abydos boat graves documents very early sewn-planked hulls and states that ships were already a major technical force in Egypt by the mid-fourth millennium BCE.

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Source title Boat-building and its social context in early Egypt: interpretations from the First Dynasty boat-grave cemetery at Abydos

Source authors Cheryl Ward

Source year 2006

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