Reed boat
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Reed boats and rafts, along with dugout canoes and other rafts, are among the oldest known types of boats. Often used as traditional fishing boats, they are still used in a few places around the world
Totora reed fishing boats on the beach at Huanchaco, Peru
Petroglyphs of a reed boat and men
Detail. Fabrication of papyrus boats in ancient Egypt. Wall fragment from the Sun Temple of Nyuserre Ini at Abu Gurob, Egypt. c. 2430 BCE. Neues Museum
The ancient Egyptian used papyrus reeds to make boats
Ra (1972 film)
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Ra is a 1972 Swedish-Norwegian documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, documenting the Ra expeditions organised by Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970, in which he and an internation
Film poster
Thor Heyerdahl