The great Pharaoh Khufu, or sometimes referred to as Cheops, is known for building the great pyramids. When he died, they buried his mummified body beneath the Pyramid of Giza.
Cheops is the Greek name. Khufu is Egyptian. (Probably Herodotus named the pyramid Cheops and it stuck as a name for Khufu.)
The tallest pyramid in ancient Egypt is the Great Pyramid of Khufu(Cheops).
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built between 2560-2540 BC.
The Pharaoh Khufu did not invent anything. He had the Great Pyramid at Giza (the Pyramid of Cheops) built as his tomb.
The pyramid of Cheops can be created with this recipe. Pyramid of Cheops = Sand + Corpse + Stone
The great Pharaoh Khufu, or sometimes referred to as Cheops, is known for building the great pyramids. When he died, they buried his mummified body beneath the Pyramid of Giza.
Cheops( or Khufu) was a pharaoh. He had a pyramid built for himself.
It is called The pyramid of Cheops in Egypt
The pyramid of Cheops
According to Herodotus Cheops compelled his daughter to become a prostitute to help pay for the pyramid.
Cheops is the Greek name. Khufu is Egyptian. (Probably Herodotus named the pyramid Cheops and it stuck as a name for Khufu.)
The Great Pyramid at Giza
P. Garde-Hansen has written: 'On the building of the Cheops pyramid' -- subject(s): Design and construction, Great Pyramid (Egypt), Pyramids
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
Khufu or Cheops
It is also called pyramid of khufu and the pyramid of cheops