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	Guardian's Egypt - The Pharaoh Khufu
		Although commonly called Cheops (and also Suphis) because of the late Greek influence on Egypt, the name Khufu is the original ancient Egyptian name for this king as demonstrated by his own cartouche.
		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.
		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)

	Egypt State Information Service-Pharaonic Monuments
		Cheops was the second king of the 4th Dynasty and was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
		Khufu was succeeded by Radjedef, his son by a lesser wife, whose reign was abruptly ended.
		He was possibly a younger son of Khufu (Cheops) by his consort, Henutsen, so he was required to wait out the reign of Djedefre, his older brother, prior to ascending to the throne of Egypt as the fourth ruler of the fourth Dynasty.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Arts&Culture/Monuments/PharaonicMonuments/070202000000000001.htm (1370 words)

	Cheops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Cheops is also known as Khufu (2589-2566 BC), the name Khufu is the original ancient Egyptian name for this king as demonstrated by his own cartouche.
		Khufu was the second king of the 4th Dynasty, and the son of another great pyramid builder King Snefru.
		Cheops was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ironically, only a very small statue of 9 cm miniature statue of Cheops is on display at the Cairo Museum.
	www.aldokkan.com /egypt/cheops.htm (562 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)

	The California Institute for Ancient Studies - List of Dynasties
		Khufu's cousin Hemon, the master builder and creator of the Great Pyramid at Giza, whose seated statue is kept in the Hildesheim Museum, Germany, and can be seen in P.Clayton, Chronicle of the Pharaohs', p.
		By this chronology, the total period of Dynasty IV was encompassed by the sole reigns of Khufu and Khafra, and the total reign of Menkaure; the remaining kings had reigns that fell entirely within the reign of Menkaure.
		If it is allowed that Userkaf had grown to any degree of maturity prior to the death of Khufu, in order to meet the specification that he had delivered to the king certain documents, he would have been about 85 yrs old at the end of the reign of Menkaure, even by the abbreviated chronology.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /dyn4.html (2269 words)

	Khufu (Cheops) Biography (Ruler of Egypt) — FactMonster.com
		Khufu (Cheops) Biography (Ruler of Egypt) — FactMonster.com
		Khufu (known to the Greeks as Cheops) was the second ruler of ancient Egypt's fourth dynasty.
		The pyramid is considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and remains a famous tourist spot and a source of archaeological mystery.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/khufu.html (194 words)

	Cheops, Chephren and Micerinus, the three pyramids of Giza
		Cheops, at 481 feet high, was the tallest structure on Earth for over 40 centuries; it was only in the nineteenth century that it was eclipsed.
		Each side of Cheops is oriented to the cardinal points of the compass, north, south, east and west, and the sloping angle measures 51 degrees and 51 minutes.
		Alongside both Khufu's and Khafre's pyramids large boat-shaped pits were found with buried boats, believed to have carried the pharaoh on his last journey on Earth and to aide the pharaoh on his journey to the afterlife.
	www.anniebees.com /Egypt/Giza_1.htm (1155 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Khufu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		He was king for 23 years and was famous as the builder of the greatest pyramid at Giza.
		Inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, a tourist makes her way through the last few inches of the antechamber, which leads from the Grand Gallery and opens into the King's Chamber.
		The Great Pyramids of Khufu, framed by the Sphinx, remain among the wonders of the ancient world.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/khufu.asp (198 words)

	► when khufu died
		Khufu was the second king of Dynasty 4 of the Old Kingdom...
		Khufu was a member of Egyptian royalty who was opposed by a priest...
		Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year BC 2560 to serve as a tomb when he died...
	www.faq-site.com /faqs/234/when-khufu-died.html (395 words)

	Khufu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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 (196 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)

	Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally believed the Great Pyramid was built as the tomb of Fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), after whom it is sometimes called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu.
		A few hundred meters south-west of the Great Pyramid lies the slightly smaller Pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who, according to some theories, is believed to have built the Great Sphinx, and a few hundred metres further south-west is the Pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor, which is about half as tall.
		The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza in Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza (5688 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.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/khufu.htm (185 words)

	Dynasty 4 - Snefru, Cheops, Radjedef, Chephren, Menkaure, Shepseskaf,
		It was even said that Khufu set one of his daughters into a brothel so that she could raise revenue to build the pyramid, also asking each client for a block of stone so she could build her own pyramid.
		He was possibly a younger son of Khufu (Cheops) by his consort, Henutsen, so he was required to wait out the reign of Djedefre, his older brother, prior to ascending to the throne of Egypt.
		Menkaure is the son of Khafre and the grandson of Khufu of Dynasty IV.
	www.crystalinks.com /dynasty4.html (5771 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)

	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)

	Herodotus on Khufu
		Khufu, as opposed to his father Snofru, had a reputation for meanness and cruelty at least since the Middle Kingdom, as the Westcar Papyrus proves.
		However that may be the highest parts of it were finished first, and afterwards they proceeded to finish that which came next to them, and lastly they finished the parts of it near the ground and the lowest ranges.
		This Cheops, the Egyptians said, reigned fifty years; and after he was dead his brother Chephren succeeded to the kingdom.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/herodotus/kheops.htm (261 words)

	EgyptSites - Khufu
		The Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) has been known as an immense impressive structure since ancient times and is the only one of the original seven wonders of the world still in existence.
		Khufu, whose monument 'Akhet Khufu' (Horizon of Khufu), known today as The Great Pyramid, was the son of Snefru and he reigned for about 23 years.
		Khufu's pyramid complex has all of the elements of the traditional pyramid, though many are now long gone.
	www.egyptsites.co.uk /lower/giza/pyramids/khufu.html (1735 words)

	Who Built the GREAT PYRAMID? by Herman L. Hoeh
		Cheops, remember, was of FOREIGN RACE -- and it is quite obvious that Cheops's Sacred Book was not preserved by Egyptians who later opposed his religion.
		Khufu, then, was a foreign King whose domain extended from Mt. Seir to Lower Egypt during and after the time of Joseph.
		Cheops or Job, according to the ancient historians, was NOT buried in it.
	www.coghomeschool.org /site/cog_archives/booklets/who_built_the_great_pyramid.htm (3373 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)

	Civil Engineering Magazine - February 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The construction of Khufu's pyramid in particular was an enormous undertaking, one that required a national effort and no doubt brought unity and cohesion to the kingdom.
		This is confirmed by the fact that the axes of the primary pyramids at Giza —those of Khufu, his son Khafre, and his grandson Menkaure—are closely aligned not only with one another but also with the points of the compass—that is, north-south and east-west.
		The builders of Khufu's pyramid waited until the flooding of the Nile—the annual inundation that took place from July through October—taking advantage of floodplains that brought water to within about a quarter of a mile of the site to transport materials.
	www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/ceonline04/0404feat.html (9918 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 Pyramids
		That of King Khufu (Cheops of the Greek authors) is the largest, of the best workmanship, and the most famous.
		Alongside it is the second largest pyramid, built by the son of Khufu, Khafra (Chephren), and a smaller one built by Menkaure (Mycerinus), also a descendant of Khufu.
		Khufu concealed very carefully his own place of burial: “That there was a problem connected with Khufu’s burial was known in later Egyptian times.
	www.varchive.org /ce/pyramids.htm (2790 words)

	HiddenMysteries Author's Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		We established the outside perimeter to be the Valley temple of Khufu.
		Descending to Khufu's Valley temple, we drew a parallel line up from the South- East corner of the temple at a precise 30° angle, and found that this ended at the South-West corner of Khafra's satellite pyramid.
		In this case the angle is 51°51'14", the precise angle of inclination of the Cheops pyramid.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /author/middleton-jones/gizacomplex.html (1757 words)

	Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz : Booksamillion.com (1400076676, Paperback)
		At the center of Khufu's Wisdom," "Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
		When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu's dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates.
		But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu's beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing decree of the heavens, but also how the wisdom he prides himself on as a ruler will guide him in determining the fate of his daughter's heart.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=1400076676 (153 words)

	The Seven Wonders: The Great Pyramid of Giza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Contrary to the common belief, only the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), not all three Great Pyramids, is on top of the list of Wonders.
		The monument was built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC to serve as a tomb when he dies.
		The overwhelming scientific and historic evidence still supports the conclusion that, like many smaller pyramids in the region, the Great Pyramids were built by the great Ancient Egyptian civilization off the West bank of the Nile as tombs for their magnificent Kings...
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/wonders/pyramid.html (892 words)

	Ancient Ships: The Solar Barque of Khufu (Cheops) builder of the Great Pyramid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Solar Barque of Khufu 4th Dynasty 2550-2528 BCE
		In 1954, archaeologists found Cheop’s (Khufu) funerary barge at Giza in a chamber beneath his pyramid.
		The barge was made of Lebanese cedar wood and faint scent of the cedar was still in the grain at the time of its discovery.
	www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/05_khufus_boat.html (656 words)

	Survey and the alignment of the Khufu pyramid - ancient Egyptian techniques
		But while building the pyramid of Khufu several additional factors had to be measured and calculated throughout the building process: the angle of the lateral surfaces, the ridge and the position of the corners.
		For the angle of inclination of the sides of Khufu's pyramid the seked is 5½ palms.
		The base area or plateau of the pyramid of Khufu (including the surrounding pavement) was leveled with great precision, so only a deviation of 2.1 cm can be measured [4].
	www.cheops-pyramide.ch /khufu-pyramid/pyramid-alignment.html (2298 words)

	Great Pyramid of Khufu - El Giza, Egypt - Great Buildings Online
		"Pyramid of Cheops" or "Khufu's Pyramid", near Cairo, the farthest north and east of the famous trio, often the pyramid in back in the classic picture.
		Khufu or Cheop's Great Pyramid is 756 feet (241 meters) square in plan, and 481 feet (153 meters) high.
		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 (354 words)

	BookRags: Khufu Summary
		Khufu (reigned 2590-2568 B.C.), or Cheops, was an Egyptian king who built the Great Pyramid at Giza and ruled as the second king of the Fourth Dynasty.
		The son and immediate successor of Queen Hetepheres and King Snefru, the founder of the Fourth Dynasty (ca.
		His Great Pyramid at Giza marks the climax in pyramid building in respect to both size and quality of construction.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-khufu/index.html (389 words)

	Nekhebet.com - The Pyramids of Giza
		The Pyramid of Khufu was built by the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) in the 4th Dynasty circa 2560 BC, making it over 4500 years old!
		During the Arabs' excavation of the Pyramid of Khufu, they encountered various boulders and slabs that were used to seal the passages and chambers within the pyramid.
		The public is not allowed to explore the passages in the Great Pyramid of Khufu, but for those who do not suffer from claustrophobia, the descending passage and chambers in the third pyramid are open for public exploration.
	www.nekhebet.com /w_pyramids.html (725 words)

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