Tomb 10A was discovered near the Nile River in a region known as Deir el-Bersha (Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC 2009). It is the 4,000-year-old resting place of a ruler and his wife, both of whom ruled during the 11th or 12th Dynasty and are called Djehutynakht. After the tomb was excavated in 1915 by archaeologists from Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA), it was clear that what they had found was a perfect archetype of traditional Egyptian burial practices. One of the many grave goods found in the Djehutynakht tomb was a fleet of 58 wooden model boats, constituting the largest collection of model boats ever discovered in an Egyptian burial (Gansicke 2003: 185). The general color scheme of the model boats is beige, brown and black. The hull of each ship is made of wood, which gives them their beige hues. A brown dye gave each of the Egyptian crew members their naturally dark, tanned skin. A black dye colored each individual's hair. Most of the models retained their original colors or were repainted by MFA conservators, while others were displayed as they were found in 1915 with faded colors (MFA, "Tomb 10A", Conservation). At least 36 of the 58 boats could have been produced in the same carpentry because they all have similar stylistic characteristics, such as the homogeneous color scheme (MFA, “Tomb 10A”, Transport Boats). The ships classified as transport vessels all had a crew of 6 to 8 identical wooden effigies of Egyptian men. At the stern of each boat there is a helmsman who takes care of the steering oar. At the bow is another man facing forward with his right arm slightly raised as if offering a handshake. He could be a navigator who shows the way through his role... in the center of the card... as well as in the practices of Egyptian religion. The aforementioned set of 36 boats that may have come from the same woodshop also had another interesting feature. Taking into account the hieroglyphics for "north" and "southbound", archaeologists were able to identify 18 southbound boats and 18 northbound boats due to the presence (southbound) or absence (bound north) of the tree (MFA, "Tomb 10A", Boat Transport). These two cardinal directions coincide with the alignment of the Nile with respect to the Earth's magnetic poles. Although these burial boats serve a practical purpose, they appear to serve multiple symbolic purposes. They are a tribute to the vessel that carries the sun god Ra through the heavens and the underworld, as well as a tribute and manifestation of the Nile, the bountiful river from which the civilization of Ancient Egypt was born..