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About 150 years ago, archaeologists uncovered spectacular images of an ancient journey on the walls of the pharaoh Hatshepsut’s funerary temple at Deir el Bahri. Five ships sail south and then north, heavily loaded with cargoes that include frankincense plants and resin, as well as apes in the rigging, back to Egypt and the pharaoh boasts no one made such a voyage in 450 years. She exaggerated a bit, as recent work at the ancient port of Saww has shown, but the meticulous portrayal of the ships and the people who crewed them helped me to lead a team that designed, built, and once again sailed a pharaoh’s ship on the Red Sea.
Anna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology
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