Khufu pyramid

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Explore all you need from information about King Khufu, get the real facts of King Khufu and his achievements, when King Khufu dies, his sons and wives.

Ukrainian photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy travels the world in search of spectacular images including idyllic scenes of Icelandic waterfalls, ancient mountain cities in Jordan, and the collision of history and modernity in Nepal. Last April, he teamed up with the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt to shoot one of the most photographed landmarks on Earth: theContinue reading "Spectacular Drone Views Of Giza Present the Pyramid in an Unusual Perspective"

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The Great Pyramid of Khufu

Close up of stones in Khufu Pyramid, Giza, Egypt

By introducing students to artifacts and archaeology, this lesson considers pyramids as artifacts and examines the scale of these great structures and asks what clues pyramids give us about the ancient Egyptians.

Are there mummies inside the Great Pyramid? Hieroglyphs? Hidden treasure? Ghosts? Find out!

Discover more about the life, family and reign of pharaoh Khufu (aka Cheops), as well as the Great Pyramid.

Khufu, Greek Cheops, (flourished 25th century BCE), second king of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 BCE) of Egypt and builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza the largest single building to that time.