Alex Ritson

Excavation was delayed for decades due to the fragile condition of the wood.

The restoration is taking place at the Grand Egyptian Museum, where Dr Issa Zaydan is leading efforts.

We have a plan to take four years to assemble the ship.

In a unique first for the Grand Egyptian Museum, visitors will have a live experience of the ship's assembly, seeing the first ship assembled and, during their visit, witnessing Egyptian and Japanese restorers assembling the second ship.

Richard Kagoe told us more.

It's not every day museum visitors get to watch history being put back together.

At Egypt's newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum, crowds gathered as a small crane carefully lifted centuries-old wooden planks onto a metal frame inside the Solar Boats Hall.

Tourism Minister Sherry Fati has described the work as one of the most important restoration projects this century.

Archaeologists say the boat's fragile structure, made up of hundreds of wooden pieces, meant its excavation and preservation had to be handled with extreme care.

The restoration is taking place in full view of the public and is expected to take up to five years.

Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of Victorian shoes which have washed ashore on two beaches in South Wales.

The black leather boots appear to be more than a century old and no one is quite sure how they ended up there.

The BBC's Thomas Morgan went to take a look.

I mean, even though they're quite old, they're still... In very good condition.

Yeah, OK.

Last Thursday on the cobbled shores of Llantwit Major and Ogmore by the sea, these appeared.

A shawl of shoes, hundreds of them, found as a beach clean-up team were restoring the rock pools.

The overwhelming majority are men's and children's, so the question now is how did these black leather shoes from yesteryear arrive in 2025?

One of the most likely scenarios probably linked to Tusker Rock, that 500-metre stretch of land in the distance about three kilometres west of the beach here.

It's also known as a graveyard of ships, having claimed a number of vessels over the years.