Cheops Pyramid King Khufu
Cheops Pyramid King Khufu was the second and most famous king of the 4th Dynasty. History: He was the son of Snofru and Hetepheres I. He at least had two wives, probably even as many as four, with whom he had several children. Queen Meritates bore him Kawab Hor-djedef, Hetepheres II, and Meresankh II. With Henutsen, Cheops had Re-khaf (the later king Chephren ) and Khufu-khaf as children. Children of Cheops are Re-died, who would succeed Cheops as Djedefre, Hor-baf, who is sometimes supposed to have become the otherwise unattested king Bakare, and Khamernebti I.
Cheops Pyramid King Khufu
According to Manetho and Herodotos, Kheops would have ruled for 63 years. The Turin King list, however, only notes 23 years for the successor of Snofru. Although the name of the king on this line is missing, it does apply to Cheops, being Snofru’s successor. The highest-known year reference of
Cheops’ reign is the year of the 17th cattle count. This means that Cheops must have ruled for at least 17 years if the cattle counts were held every year, or 33 years if the cattle counts were always held every two years.
Cheops Pyramid King Khufu
Like his father, Cheops seems to have been intent on establishing a more or less permanent military presence in the Sinai, probably to prevent the Bedouins from interrupting the work in the turquoise mines. An inscription in Aswan demonstrates Cheop’s interest in this region as well, as it was the main quarry for the granite needed to build his pyramid. A stela was found near Abu Simbel and some fragments of an alabaster object found in Byblos indicate some commercial activity with Nubia and Palestine.
Cheops Pyramid King Khufu
Following his father’s example, Kheops again built his funerary monument away from his predecessor’s. Building activity moved from Dashur to Giza, to the north of the capital, Memphis. There he built the monument that has made him one of the most famous kings of ancient Egyptian history: the
Great Pyramid of Giza. Herodotos accounts for thousands of slaves laboring for 20 years to build this monument, it’s now seen as incorrect. It is now accepted that the harder labor, such as moving and placing granite and calcite blocks, was done by farmers during the annual 4-month inundation
of the Nile Recent discoveries have shown that were housed and paid for, and that they were even buried near the pyramid of a king so they could be part of the king’s eternal life after death.
Cheops Pyramid King Khufu
Herodotus, however, did not invent Cheop’s bad reputation. This had, in fact, become part of the Egyptian tradition centuries before this Greek traveler visited Egypt. The Middle Kingdom story recorded on the Westcare papyrus, which shows Snofru as a wise and kind man, describes Cheops
as a cruel and tyrannical ruler, with no respect for life.
