ANCIENT REED BOATS.

The earliest discovered remains in the old world from a reed boat are 7,000 years old, found in Failaka Island, Kuwait.
Reed boats are depicted in early images created by removing part of a rock surface, as a form of rock art. The images show reed boats and men.
Similarities can be found in cave paintings around the world. The reed boats depicted in cave paintings in Scandinavia led people to theorize that Scandinavians came from an area that today is Azerbaijan. A hill and mountain site occupying the South East end of the Greater Caucasus mountain ridge, mainly in the basin of Jeyrankechmaz River, between the Rivers Pirsagat and Sumgait, was declared a national historical landmark in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings for the quality and density of its engraving. There are more than 6,000 images carved in there by the ancient people that lived in these caves 12,000 years ago. At that time the Caspian Sea was much higher and washed against the lower rocks of the hill.
Another site is the Valley of Many Baths (Wadi Ham-Mamat), a dry River bed in Egypt's Easter Desert, about halfway between El Qoseir and Qena. The drawings of Egyptian reed boats date to 4,000 BC. It was a major mining region and trade route East from the Nile Valley in ancient times, and 3,000 years of rock carvings and graffiti make it a major scientific and tourist site today. The Valley of Many Baths became the major route from Thebes to the Red Sea and then to the Silk Road that led to Asia, or to Arabia and the Horn of Africa. This 200 km journey was the most direct route from the Nile to the Red Sea, as the Nile bends toward the coast at the Western end of the Valley.
A famous example, according to the Scriptures, of an Egyptian reed boat is the chest made of reeds in which the baby Moses was set afloat. When the Pharaoh issued a decree to kill all the Israelites males, the baby Moses was saved by his mother, who set him adrift on the Nile in a reed boat or basket.
Theophrastus in his "History of Plants" states that the rigging on King Antigonus' fleet, used to fasten the doors when Ulyses slew the suitors in his hall, was made from papyrus reed.
Ancient Mediterranean or African people crossed the Atlantic and reached the other side of the earth by sailing with the Canary Current. It is a wind-driven surface current that is part of a circular system of ocean currents that stretches across the North Atlantic from near the equator almost to Iceland, and from the East coast of North America to the West coasts of Europe and Africa.
Reed boats were also constructed from very early times in Peru and Bolivia and still they are being used as a mean of transportation. Totora reeds grow around Lake Titicaca, a large, deep Lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru. By volume of water and by surface area, Lake Titicaca is the largest Lake in South America. It is often called the "highest navigable Lake" in the world, with a surface elevation of 3,812 m / 12,507ft.
The totora reeds have been used by various Andean ancient civilizations to built reed boats. The boats, called "balsa," vary in size from small fishing canoes to 30m long. They are constantly used on Lake Titicaca as means of transportation.
The Uros are Andean people of Peru and Bolivia that live on 42 self-fashioned floating Islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno, Peru. The Uru descend from an very ancient town that, according to legends, are people who speak Uru or Pukina language and that they are identified as the guardians of the Lake and water. Uru used to say that they have black blood because they did not feel cold. They have historically called themselves "Sons of the Sun."
The purpose of the Island settlements was originally defensive; is a thread arose the floating Islands could be moved. The largest Island retains a Watchtower almost entirely constructed of reeds.