After years of work, researchers have now completed their exhumation of all the artifacts of the Second Khufu Ship found next to the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) in Giza. The next steps are restoration and reassembly so this significant artifact will be ready for visitors to gaze upon it with awe at the Grand Egyptian Museum. Excavating the Second Khufu Ship was a Monumental Task Egypt Today reports that this monumental task is the work of an Egyptian-Japanese archaeological mission which was led by Sakuji Yoshimura, President of Japan's Higashi Nippon International University and Honorary Professor at Waseda University. On the Egyptian side of the project there is Issa Zidan - the Director General of the Executive Affairs for Restoration
