You are now standing atop Khufu, 449 feet above the plateau. Until early in this century, this pyramid was the tallest building on earth. The wooden surveying tripod at the summit indicates the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic ... of the three pyramids points toward the temple of Re in Heliopolis. circa 2550 B.C. Khufu, second king of Egypt ...

Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says a scanning project in the Giza pyramids has identified thermal anomalies, including one in the largest pyramid, built by Cheops, known locally as Khufu.

One of these involves the location of the famous pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid, Khufu. Despite knowing where his tomb is (his tomb is the Great Pyramid itself), no one has ever been able to ...

And you have this lady, the daughter of Khufu. And this man was the vizier of the king. This one was the inspector of the pyramids, the chief inspector of the pyramids, the wife of the pyramid ...

Built over four-and-a-half thousand years ago, the pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu. You can pass through the solid stone blocks that make up the Pyramid’s core to explore its hidden ...