 Many precious artifacts have been recovered within Egypt over the years. Many ancient Egyptian tombs found intact, untouched for millennia, still containing the valuable items left for their kings with the intention of their beloved pharaoh's use in their passage to the afterlife. And with the mountains of gold and glistening jewels which have captured the attention and the hearts of those who have explored these ancient archives, a lot of the most astounding relics go largely unnoticed. The solar boat could be seen as a particularly good example of this mass overlooking of the most interesting of things. At the foot of the Great Pyramid, once beneath several multi-ton, precisely placed blocks of limestone lay the Khufu Ship, a full-sized ancient Egyptian vessel sealed into a pit over 4,000 years ago. Why is more not heard regarding this astonishing find? Strongly believed to have been built for Khufu, King Cheops, who is the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The ship is now preserved in the Giza Solar Boat Museum, built at the site in 1985. It is completely dedicated to the preservation of the boat, possessing state-of-the-art preservation technologies. Khufu Ship is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It measures 44 meters long and 6 meters wide. It is also acknowledged as the world's oldest intact ship, and has been described by all in the know as a masterpiece of woodcraft. It could sail today if put into water. However, what is clearly the most amazing fact regarding the solar ship, the vessel was never intended to sail on water. The solar boat was built to sail through the air. It was built largely of Lebanon's cedar planking in the shell-first construction technique, using unpegged tenons of Christ's thorn. The ship was built with a flat bottom composed of several planks, but no actual keel, with the planks and frames lashed together with half a grass. The boat was found complete, but in pieces across the lair's floor, laid in a logically disassembled order beneath the pyramid, subsequently reconstructed from the 1224 pieces which were laid out in order over 45 years prior. It took several years for the boat to be painstakingly reassembled, primarily by the Egyptian Department of Antiquity's chief restorer, Ahmed Yusuf Mustafa. Before reconstructing the boat, he had to gain enough experience on ancient Egyptian boat building. He studied the reliefs carved on walls and tombs, and many of the little wooden models of ships and boats found in tombs. Ahmed also visited the Nile boatyards of old Cairo and Mahadi, and went to Alexandria, where wooden river boats were still being made. It is now believed to have been known as a solar barge, a ritual vessel to carry the king with the sun god Ra across the heavens. However, it bears some of the signs of having been used, a fact which has baffled many researchers, due to the ship's only purpose being that of floating in the sky. It is possible that the ship was either a funerary barge used to carry the king's embalmed body from Memphis to Giza, or even that Khufu himself used it as a pilgrimage ship to visit holy places, and that it was buried for him to use in the afterlife. Yet burning questions arise from such conclusions. Firstly, how would the ship fly? Secondly, if the ship was indeed intended to be used in King Khufu's afterlife, why was it resting in pieces beneath the pyramid, and why did it show wear from use within the king's life? Did this ship somehow once possessed the power of flight? Did ancient Egyptians? We have been covering a lot recently in regards to the compelling evidence left by the ancient Egyptians, revealing their advanced ability to traverse most of the earth prior to Columbus. Is the solar ship a piece of this puzzle? Kamal El Malak, who somehow predicted the existence of the ship, and has been attributed with its discovery in 1954 through his extensive personal research of the area over 14 years, initially found another pit also at the foot of the Great Pyramid. Unfortunately, it seems this layer had been robbed shortly before he found it. Archaeologists and Egyptologists alike rejected his claims of some sort of ship having been within this empty cavern, yet when the other pit was found, which did indeed contain a ship, his prior claim was vindicated. How did Kamal know? He would later claim that he believed something rather special was stolen from that first cavern. Could it have been the thing which made the ship work? Regardless of this other cavern's lost contents, the solar boat is certainly an amazing thing in its own right. There are many curious things found throughout recent years found within images taken by Google Earth, with some being particularly peculiar. One such find being that of a seemingly frozen ship, measured at 400 feet long, it is as if it were picked up and planted upon this enormous block of frozen ice within Antarctica, dismissed by some as simply being that of a naturally formed block of ice, yet the resemblance to a cruise liner is unquestionably uncanny. If indeed a ship like the one we have covered previously, an old lifeboat found in the 70s within an inescapable lagoon within the interior of Buvi Island, one of the most inhospitable and remote places on Earth, ravaged almost yearly by storms, with no explanation as to how it arrived there. This ship would undoubtedly raise similar questions. Some conspiracy theorists even putting forward the posit that it is possibly the remnants of a Nazi vehicle, a theory linked to a base long claimed to have been created down here during the Second World War. Whatever the answer, questions regarding this curious find remain. Could this really be a ship literally frozen solid in an almost impossible location? And if so, where did it come from and how did it get to where it rests now? We find this discovery highly compelling. Asuka is a village nestled among the hills of the Nara Prefecture of Kansai, in Japan. Asuka lays claim to some seriously strange stone carvings. But one in particular is very special indeed. The village has its origins in the tumulus period around 300 AD, also called Kofunji I, which means Old Mount Period. Though clearly the stones predate this colonization by some years. The area is known for its many Buddhist temples, shrines and sanctuaries, but there are stone monuments within these hills that predate even the Buddhists. Built to specific specifications, for a purpose we are unclear of, their exquisite style, sculpture and construction, has baffled specialists, no one seems to know who built them. When? Or indeed why? The largest and clearly the most interesting of the collection rests at the top of the hill, as if perched ready for take-off, known as Masuda Noiwafun, which is said to mean the rock ship of Masuda. It sits atop the steep incline of a hill near Okadira station and its purpose remains a mystery. The rock ship measures over 35 feet in length, and is 15 feet tall. It is made of solid granite, which makes it somewhere around 800 tons in weight. With two holes each about a meter square in the center, going through to the ground. It said that Masuda Noiwafun bears a striking similarity in its construction to another enigmatic stone megalith in Japan, known as Ishinohoden. It is currently a site of worship dedicated to the Shinto Godoshiko Ginger, again, no one knows who carved it, though it's thought to also have two mysteriously placed holes at its center. Also in the same region of Asuka, the precision cut granite monolith, that sits as if crash landed in a small passageway between cliffs. Why is an ancient stone perched on top a hill in Japan? Why throughout its history has it been looked upon as being a craft? Why the mysteriously precisely cut holes, also, an interesting note, these monoliths seem to have not been constructed to sit on a base. Called the rock ships, are we looking at ancient alien craft, are we looking at advanced ancient technology, have we been looking at everything of ancient civilization in the wrong way? Or even the ancient pyramids craft, if we are ever to work out the truth, we will always need those who suspect the preposterous.