Abu Rawash (also known as Abu Roach, Abu Roash), 8 km to the North of Giza, is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid, also known as the lost pyramid — the mostly ruined Pyramid of Djedefre, the son and successor of Khufu.
Baufra´s name appears as the last name in a list naming the kings Khufu, Djedefre, Khafre and Hordjedef.
An example of conflicting evaluations for a reign duration via cattle count is the case of king Khufu (4th dynasty).
This cemetery derives its name from its relative location to pyramid G I (Khufu).
As Dr. Zahi Hawass announced on his blog: "The purpose of this project is to send a robotic tunnel explorer into the two “air shafts” that lead from the Queen’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Khufu to gather evidence to determine the purpose of the shafts."
The names of Khufu and Djedefre were inscribed in gneiss quarries in the Western Desert 65 km to the northwest of Abu Simbel; objects dated to the reigns of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure have been uncovered at Byblos.
The first two Queen's Pyramids, G 1a and G 1b, were likely started in year 15-17 of King Khufu.
The presence of Reserve heads and slab stela points to the reign of Khufu for the construction of the earliest of the tombs in this cemetery.
This base is four times the size of that of Pharaoh Khufu's Great Pyramid of Giza and is the largest pyramid base in the Americas.
The pottery, hieroglyph inscriptions and hieratic graffiti at the site show that it was in use intermittently from at least as early as the reign of Khufu until the Roman period (c. 2589 BC–AD 300).
Iynefer II ("the beautiful one has come"; the name is also spelled as Iy-nefer) was an ancient Egyptian Prince, son of Pharaoh Khufu.
During 2000, they met with members of the team who, in 1986, had worked on the mystery of the Pyramid of Khufu under the aegis of the Fondation EDF.
In September 2004, he claimed, along with his colleague Gilles Dormion, to have discovered a corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza which he believes could lead directly to the burial chamber of Pharaoh Khufu.
He was born during the reign of his grandfather, King Khufu.
He would have in turn been succeeded in office by Nefermaat's son Hemiunu who held the position at the beginning of Khufu's reign.
It is possible that she was a daughter of Khufu, based on the fact that inscriptions identify her as a King's daughter.
Meresankh II's parents are assumed to be King Khufu and Queen Meritites I given that they are mentioned in Meresankh's mastaba.
Meritites II (Merytiotes, Meritetes) or Meritites A ("beloved of her father") was a 4th dynasty Princess of Ancient Egypt, and likely a daughter of King Khufu.
Reisner argues against this theory and suggests that Nefertkau may have married her brother Khufu.
Strudwick has suggested that Iynefer may also be a son of Khufu.
She was a daughter of Pharaoh Sneferu and one of his wives and she was a half-sister to Pharaoh Khufu.
Alford takes as his starting point the golden rule that the pharaoh had to be buried in the earth, i.e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed up in the so-called Well Shaft adjacent to a known cave called the Grotto.
They all died before Snofru, because their younger half-brother Khufu became king after Sneferu.
Inside the pyramid, one by one, the members of the entourage become subject to Khufu's punishment for their faults, but the professor insists on heading deeper in the complex despite knowing the fatal dangers of the environment.
Peters shows him the most precious piece in his collection: a 4th dynasty Cheops.
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The wood of the Abydos boats was local Tamarix - tamarisk, salt cedar - not cedar from Lebanon which was used for Khufu’s Solar Barque and favored for shipbuilding in Egypt in later dynasties.
Due the story, the sons of Khufu entertain their father by telling him stories about magicians and miracles which were witnessed under Khufu´s ancestors Djoser, Nebka and Sneferu.
Iynefer II, an Egyptian prince of the Fourth Dynasty, son of Khufu
Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic film in Cinemascope, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring the two British actors Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins as Pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops) and his second wife Nellifer, in fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid.