16th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology

118 16 th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology Sarah Wagdy 1 , Ziad Morsy 2 , Mai Ghanem 2 & Yomna Mohamed 1 1 Alexandria center for maritime archaeology & underwater cultural heritage, Alexandria, Egypt 2 University of Southampton, Center for Maritime Archaeology, Southampton, UK Traditional boats of the Egyptian coastal lakes (Manzala, Burullus and Edku) documental project (TBCL-EGY) The archaeologists of ships and boats and maritime ethnographers did not turn their attention to the traditional Egyptian maritime heritage of some of the coastal lakes except within the past decades of the present century. furthermore, they gave partial attention to some Traditional boats, which are still in use in the Burullus and Manzala lakes, without studying other traditional boats in the same lakes. In addition to this partial interest in some boats but not others, the studies conducted on these boats are incomplete. Unfortunately, some of these boats are on the verge of disappearing completely and others were abandoned. Additionally, other lakes, such as Lake Edku, did not receive any attention; many of these unstudied lakes have lost most of their traditional maritime heritage and boats. Hence, there is an urgent need to implement a documental project to preserve what remains of the traditional Egyptian maritime heritage of these previously mentioned coastal lakes and their traditional boats. This project was recently approved to be funded by the Honor Frost Foundation. This poster will provide a presentation of the Egyptian coastal lake commu- nities and the tangible cultural heritage represented by their traditional boats of various types and equipment. Moreover, this research will shed light on the latest results of the preliminary fieldwork of the project’s team in these lakes and the documentation methodology of some types of these boats, which includes 3D digital technology, particularly photogrammetry. Also, the research will illustrate the effects of using 3D digital technology, on the documentation procedures and the historical, and technical interpretations of some of these boats.