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	Guardian's Egypt - The Pharaoh Khufu
		He was rumored in later times to have been prone to enjoying the fantastic stories of the reigns of his predecessors, as well as tales of magic and the mystical.
		Khufu had several sons and his immediate successor was his son Djedefre (Radjedef).
		A remaining son of Khufu - Khafre, was to join his father building his pyramid at the higher spot in on the Giza plateau.
	www.guardians.net /egypt/khufu.htm (594 words)

	Z. PROUNTZOPOULOU - KHUFU'S PYRAMID
		The queen's chamber was meant to hold Khufu's funeral objects and not to be the burial chamber for a queen.
		The Queen's chamber was meant to hold Khufu's funerary object and not to be the burial chamber for a queen.
		Khufu's mummy and all of his funerary goods for the next life were probably taken out of the pyramid by ancient tomb robbers.
	users.hol.gr /~oixalia/Khufu1.htm (2734 words)

	Z. PROUNTZOPOULOU - KHUFU'S PYRAMID
		The underground chamber was originally meant to be the burial chamber of khufu or this room was left unfinished for religious reasons or this room was built to fool tomb robbers and lead them away from the real burial chamber.
		Khufu's mummy as well as all his goods were taken out of the pyramid by ancient tomb robbers.
		The satellite pyramid that was a symbolic tomb for Khufu's Ka and the mastabas.
	users.hol.gr /~oixalia/Khufu3.htm (2535 words)

	King Khufu
		Khufu was succeeded by Radjedef, his son by a lessor wife, whose reign was abruptly ended.
		Khufu’s Horus name was Medjedu, and his full birth-name was Khnum-Khufu, meaning, "the god Khnum protects me." Khnum was considered the local god of Elephantine, near the first Nile cataract, who created mankind on his "potter’s wheel" and was also responsible for the proper flooding of the Nile.
		Khufu’s senior wife was named Merityotes, and she and his other two wives were each buried in one of the three smaller subsidiary pyramids that lie just south of the mortuary temple of the main pyramid.
	www.angelfire.com /wizard2/princess_egypt/Joscel/Khufu.html (911 words)

	Khufu - CryptoDox (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Khufu and Khafre are patented by Xerox; U.S. Patent 5,003,597, issued on 26th March, 1991.
		Khufu is a 64-bit block cipher which, unusually, uses keys of size 512 bits; block ciphers typically have much smaller keys, rarely exceeding 128 bits.
		Khufu is a Feistel cipher with 16 rounds by default (other multiples of eight between 8 and 64 are allowed).
	cryptodox.com /Khufu (435 words)

	Dynasty 4 - Snefru, Cheops, Radjedef, Chephren, Menkaure, Shepseskaf,
		KhufuÐs Horus name was Medjedu, and his full birth-name was Khnum-Khufu, meaning, "the god Khnum protects me." Khnum was considered the local god of Elephantine, near the first Nile cataract, who created mankind on his "potterÐs wheel" and was also responsible for the proper flooding of the Nile.
		KhufuÐs senior wife was named Merityotes, and she and his other two wives were each buried in one of the three smaller subsidiary pyramids that lie just south of the mortuary temple of the main pyramid.
		Menkaure is the son of Khafre and the grandson of Khufu of Dynasty IV.
	www.crystalinks.com /dynasty4.html (5771 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs : Old Kingdom : Dynasty 4 : Khufu
		After the enormous build ling projects of his father, Sneferu, in Dashur and Maidum, Khufu moved his mortuary temple and monuments tot he great plateau at Giza and raised a pyramid that continues to astound the world today.
		Khufu had many sons, and at least one chronology posits that his was initially succeeded by his eldest son, Kauab but that Kauab was quickly usurped by a younger son, Re-djedef, who would take the throne as Djedefre.
		Contemporary Egyptian writings noted that he was not the "wise and kind" leader that his father was, and the tradition of Khufu as a "bad king" was ingrained by the Middle Kingdom.
	www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn04/02khufu.html (790 words)

	BBC - History - Khufu (2609 BC - 2584 BC)
		Khufu came to the throne, probably during his twenties, and at once began work on his pyramid.
		Khufu was the first pharaoh to build a pyramid at Giza.
		However, the Westcar Papyrus describes Khufu as a traditional oriental monarch: good-natured, amiable to his inferiors and interested in the nature of human existence and magic.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/khufu.shtml (323 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: The Giza Plateau, Egypt - The Pyramid of Khufu
		Khufu's mortuary temple was demolished down to bedrock over the centuries.
		These are thought to be the boats which transported Khufu's body to his pyramid, since it was common practice to bury all the items connected with the royal funeral close to the final resting place of the King.
		Also built around the pyramid were the "Mastabas" (tombs) of the minor sons of the pharoah and the "Mastabas" of officials and workers related to the funerary complex.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /pyramids_giza_khufu.htm (731 words)

	Neferchichi's Tomb at neferchichi.com
		However, Khufu is better known as the owner of the Great Pyramid at Giza-- a structure so huge that it held the record for the world's tallest man-made building until the 1880's (that's four and a half thousand years!).
		It is believed that this was the barge that brought Khufu's body across the Nile to the pyramid during his funeral.
		On the west side of the pyramid is a necropolis of tombs of Khufu's servants.
	www.neferchichi.com /khufu.html (576 words)

	Egyptian History - Dr. Zahi Hawass
		Khufu was the second king of Dynasty 4 of the Old Kingdom.
		It the late period (26th Dynasty), Khufu was worshipped as a god - his name was found written on scarabs and names of two 26th Dynasty priest have been found who were, at that time, in charge of maintaining his cult.
		Khufu was remembered by the Egyptians throughout pharaonic history, and many tales were told about him.
	www.zahihawass.com /egyptian_hist_khufu.htm (1345 words)

	King Khufu
		Khufu was known as the "Father of Pyramid Building at Giza" (Khufu 1).
		Vizier Hermon, the pharaoh’s cousin, was the architect responsible for the construction of the pyramid.
		King Khufu’s time in the afterlife was to be as nice as that, which he had in his previous life, especially since he had all the things he held dear to him.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Egypt/03/Rshaw/Rshaw.htm (1207 words)

	Khufu, Pyramid of
		In Ancient Egypt, a pyramid at Giza, Egypt, built by the command of King Khufu as his tomb, finished around 2566 BCE.
		The Pyramid of Khufu is the largest pyramid in the world, at almost 2.6 million m³.
		Khufu's pyramid is the oldest, and only surviving, of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/khufu_p.htm (307 words)

	Khufu at AllExperts
		Khufu was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty.
		Khufu was the son of King Sneferu and Queen Hetepheres.
		Three small pyramids to the east of Khufu's pyramid are tentatively thought to belong to two of his wives, and the third has been ascribed to Khufu's mother Hetepheres I, whose funerary equipment was found relatively intact in a shaft tomb nearby.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/kh/khufu.htm (905 words)

	Khufu
		Also to Khufu, a 43 metre long funeral ship, found near his pyramid, is ascribed, as well as another smaller funeral boat.
		In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a tiny statuette from the temple of Abydos, is thought to depict Khufu.
		Khufu was remembered for being a hard tyrant, a quality which was a prerequisite for building the gigantic pyramid.
	i-cias.com /e.o/khufu.htm (185 words)

	Khufu Summary
		Khufu's authority was so great that he was able to mobilize and support as many as 20,000 workers each year throughout his reign to work on his pyramid complex.
		Khufu was the son of King Sneferu and Queen Hetepheres.
		Whether or not this story cycle is true is unknown, but Khufu's negative reputation lasted at least until the time of Herodotus, who was told further stories of that king's cruelty to his people and to his own family in order to ensure the construction of his pyramid.
	www.bookrags.com /Khufu (1291 words)

	Egypt: Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		Khufu’s Horus name was Medjedu, and his full birth-name was Khnum-Khufu, meaning, "the god Khnum protects me." Khnum was considered the local god of Elephantine, near the first Nile cataract, who created mankind on his "potter’s wheel" and was also responsible for the proper flooding of the Nile.
		Khufu’s senior wife was named Merityotes, and she and his other two wives were each buried in one of the three smaller subsidiary pyramids that lie just south of the mortuary temple of the main pyramid.
		It should be noted that while Khufu has acquired this reputation, accurate or not, the years and labor that went into building his Pyramid tomb was surpassed by the three pyramids built by his father Sneferu, who was contrarily remembered as an amiable ruler.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/khufu.htm (1056 words)

	Khufu
		Also to Khufu, a 43 metre long funeral ship, found near his pyramid, is ascribed, as well as another smaller funeral boat.
		In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a tiny statuette from the temple of Abydos, is thought to depict Khufu.
		Khufu was remembered for being a hard tyrant, a quality which was a prerequisite for building the gigantic pyramid.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/khufu.htm (185 words)

	Seven Wonders of the World - Pyramid of Giza
		Khufu is the second Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty of rulers in Egypt.
		The King Khufu's chamber is located at the heart of the pyramid.
		Khafre is the son of Khufu and is also known as Rakhaef or chefren and is the second largest Pyramid on the Giza site.
	www.sevenwondersworld.com /wonders_of_world_giza_pyramid.html (821 words)

	Great Pyramid of Khufu - El Giza, Egypt - Great Buildings Online
		Khufu or Cheop's Great Pyramid is 756 feet (241 meters) square in plan, and 481 feet (153 meters) high.
		For ease of modeling the pyramids, it may be useful to also know the triangular face height for each as measured along the surface instead of vertically.
		According to trigonometry, these surface face heights are: Khufu, 612 feet (195 meters); Khafre, 588 feet (179 meters); Menkaure, 276.6 feet (88 meters) (or possibly 263.6 feet (84m)).
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Great_Pyramid.html (341 words)

	National Geographic: Egypt--Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza
		Khufu, son of Snefru and second ruler of the 4th dynasty (time line) moved the royal necropolis to Giza, north of modern-day Cairo.
		We now know it was never intended to house one of Khufu's wives but perhaps a sacred statue of the king himself.
		Neither airshafts (they were sealed) nor hallways (they are too narrow), they may have been designed to allow Khufu to travel to the stars in his afterlife.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /pyramids/khufu.html (322 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Great Pyramid
		Until the 19th century it was the tallest building in the world and, at the age of 4,500 years, it is the only one of the famous "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" that still stands.
		The purpose of the structure, according to Herodotus's sources, was as a tomb for the Pharaoh Khufu (whom the Greeks referred to as Cheops).
		No matter how clever the designers became, though, robbers seemed to be smarter and with almost no exceptions each of the great tombs of the Egyptian Kings were plundered.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /kpyramid.htm (822 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| Battle over Khufu's death bed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dormion and Verd'Hurt attempted to explain how they came to the conclusion that Khufu's sepulchral room is located beneath the room known as the queen's chamber.
		He told the Weekly that the fourth dynasty solar cult mandated that the Pyramid must be oriented from the east to the west, because the latter symbolises the world of the dead.
		Trying to reinforce his opinion of them as amateurs, he said that when the duo were allowed to probe into Khufu's Pyramid in 1986, during which they found nothing, they sold hundreds of t- shirts emblazoned with an image of the Pyramid and the words, "we are the ones who probed the Pyramid".
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/708/eg9.htm (964 words)

	Khufu the pyramid Builder - Batch conversion - Pyramid TIFF
		Khufu is a free utility for batch conversion of images in various formats to TIFF format with embedded multi resolution âImage Pyramidâ data.
		Khufu automatically creates new folders and images in TIFF format in the shadow folder as images are added to - or modified in - the source folder.
		Khufu itself is implemented in Javaâ¢ and therefore designed to run on any Java2 enabled platform.
	www.yawah.com /products/khufu.html (223 words)

	4th Dynasty (The Old Kingdom of the Pharaonic Era) ... youregypt.com
		Snefru completed Huni's pyramid at Meidum and erected 2 other pyramids of his own at Dahshur, the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid which is considered as the first true pyramid in terms of flawless building.
		Khufu (Cheops or Suphis I in Greek) married Queen Meritates who gave birth to the soon-to-be-heir Kewab.
		It is believed that Radjedef, Khufu's son, had Kewab, the rightful heir and his brother, killed and overtook the power.
	www.youregypt.com /ehistory/history/pharaonic/oldkingdom/4th.htm (347 words)

	Egyptian Pyramid Design -The Khufu (Great) Pyramid (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The proposed derivation for the original design of the Khufu Pyramid to be presented here has its basis in these same imperatives, although they are achieved in a slightly different manner than that seen in the aforementioned essays.
		The derivation of the design for the Khufu Pyramid is closely related to the derivations for the design diagrams of three other pyramids of the Old Kingdom period, as can be seen in the author's accompanying essays.
		Seen in the Khufu Pyramid, as well as in other Old Kingdom pyramids, is a complete willingness on the part of the architects, if not a direct imperative, to implement what may have been a ritualized shift in the placement of certain of these diagrammatic components.
	www.atara.net /pyramids/khufu (10415 words)

	Black History: Mybrotha.COM - ONLINE Magazine Resource For Black Men
		Khufu was the son of another great pyramid builder, King Sneferu and his mother was Queen Hetepheres.
		Khufu reigned for nearly 25 years and demonstrated a commanding ability to organize and mobilize workers.
		Khufu's development and building of The Great Pyramid is a true symbol of the essence of Black men.
	www.mybrotha.com /khufu.asp (548 words)

	Pharaoh Khufu
		Khufu was the second Pharaoh of the fourth (4th) Dynasty.
		Khufu (pronounced kew-foo), called Cheops (pronounced key-ops) by the Greek, was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, ruled for 23 years, and was the builder of the first of the Great Pyramids of Giza (the only Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that is still standing).
		The Turin Papyrus states that Khufu came to power in his twenties and was remembered in folk history as cruel and ruthless.
	www.teenwitch.com /pharaoh/khufu.html (273 words)

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