SHIPS BEFORE THE ARK
.NOAH NOT FIRST SHIP-BUILDER Noah was not the first ship-builder; there were ships five thousand years before he built the Ark. I The oldest ship known seems to bothat of which a model has been found in Fayoum, in Upper Egypt, where a great inland sea has come and gone since prehistoric times. There are pictures of ships on Egyptian vases and in wall paintings 8000 years old—still over 3000 years before Noah. These arc built in rough plank, and have palm-tree trunks for masts, with places for rowers in calm weather; but whether the Fayoum ship had a mast or sails is not clear.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 22 February 1926, Page 3
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109SHIPS BEFORE THE ARK Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 22 February 1926, Page 3
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