Khufu Pharaoh

Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom. He reigned from around 2589 BC to 2566 BC. He was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. He is generally accepted as being the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.
Khufu was the son of King Sneferu and Queen Hetepheres. Unlike his father, Khufu was remembered as a cruel and ruthless pharaoh in later folklore. Khufu had several sons, one of which, Djedefra, was his immediate successor. He had a daughter named Queen Hetepheres II.

No funerary monuments or statues remain of this king, and only one miniature statuette of him has been discovered in the temple of Abydos (by William Flinders Petrie's excavation) and is now on display in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. His mummy has never been recovered. An empty sarcophagus is located in the King's Chamber inside the pyramid though it is unclear if it was ever used for such a purpose as burial. However, his Highest Year date, the Year of the 17th Count of Khufu, first mentioned by Flinders Petrie in an 1883 book and then lost to historians, was rediscovered by Zahi Hawass in 2001 in one of the the relieving chambers within this king's pyramid.
Some scholars believe that he was not a pharaoh [citation needed], seeing Khufu instead as a sign of the God of All Gods, or "the sun", so the Ancient Egyptians built the great pyramid in Giza to keep the worship to their god forever. However, since his full name is Chnum-Khufu, which means Chnum is protector, it seems as if he chose to use a theophoric name referring to a more supreme god Chnum, who protected him, so it is more likely that Khufu was simply human.
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