There are currently 5,168 records online on the website of the museum and this will continue to grow over time.

Experts will begin removing around 600 pieces of timber in November, said professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan's Waseda University, who is helping lead the restoration effort with the antiquities council. Conserving the wood and reassembling the craft could take a decade, Hawass said. Work on the first boat, by comparison, took 25 years, in part because there was little information on Egyptian boat building other than carvings and small models found in tombs.

The papyri were donated to Stanford in the 1920s by an alumnus who bought them from an antiquities dealer in London. They've been overlooked by generations of faculty who haven't focused on papyrology, said Joe Manning, an associate professor of classics. About 70 texts in Stanford's collection of several hundred papyri were taken from storage and brought to the university's conservation lab in April.

Dating back to the 19th Dynasty, the Ushabti was identified when a collector - who had bought the statue, having no background about the heist - showed it to experts at a Lyden museum in 2006. Dutch authorities have delivered Ushabti to representatives of the Egyptian government in order to take it back, an Egyptian Embassy statement said

Short video about the second solar boat of Khufu.