Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Spain and Egypt will commence a search later this year for the Beatrice, the 19th century ship that was wrecked at sea while attempting to transport the black basalt sarcophagus of Menkaure to England.

Please note, the news story wrongly reports the sarcophagus as having once contained the body of Khafre instead of Menkaure.

“MENA cited Egyptian Ambassador to Spain Yasser Murad as saying the countries would first hold consultations and compare historical records, and attempt to establish the location of the shipwreck…

…A ship carrying ancient artifacts from Egypt to Britain that sank off the Spanish coast in the first half of the 19th century is believed by some Egyptologists to have contained Khafre’s (sic) mummy.”

Source: Spain, Egypt to investigate 19th century shipwreck

Tags: Giza, menkaure, sarcophagus