Khéops

Khéops (or Khoufou ) is the second Pharaon of. Manéthon calls it Souphis 1st and counts sixty-three years of reign to him. The Papyrus of Turin has a gap for its name, but counts twenty-three years of them to him.

One locates his reign at the neighborhoods of -2551/-2549 with -2528/-2526.

Genealogy

With its four wives, it has ten children of which Hétep-Young stags {{II}} which marries his/her brothers Kaouab {{Ier}} and Djédefrê (the following king); its third wife Khâmernebti {{Anger}} wife then Khéphren. Apart from the successors of Khoufou on the throne of Horus who established their own monument, almost all the members of this royal family were made build their tomb with the immediate vicinity of the Grande Pyramid of Gizeh.

Titulature

Reign

The reign of Khéops, as a Khoufou Egyptian, abbreviation of Khnoum-koue-excavated (Khnoum protects to me) is rather badly known. He is the son of the king Snéfrou and the queen Hétep-Young stags {{Ire}}, and is regarded by certain as one of largest of the history of the ancient Egypt.

Its reputation especially comes us by its architectural achievements, amongst other things to have made build the Grande pyramid of Gizeh, of which construction took twenty years, requiring 20 000 workmen, and regarded nowadays as the perfection in term of technique of construction and architecture of the Egyptian pyramids. Its complex funerary also includes/understands the pyramids of the queens Mérititès {{Ire}} (or Méritit) and Hénoutsen, the tombs of its sons and a mastaba of his/her daughter Néfertiabet; Khéops arranged also a burial for his/her mother Hétep-Young stags after its tomb original had been plundered.

As bring it back Hérodote ( which visited Egypt 22 centuries later ) and the tales of the Papyrus Westcar (Nouvel Empire), contrary to his/her father, the Pharaon Snéfrou, Khéops were regarded as a cruel and unjust Pharaon towards his people. This reputation undoubtedly comes owing to the fact that it was hard to imagine such a building being builds differently than by slaves, in sweat and the suffering.

However, of recent discovered, following the excavations carried out by Mark Lehner, under the authority of Zahi Hawass, president of the Supreme council of Egyptian Antiquities, revealed a city of the craftsmen and workmen with Gizeh. It appears that those were well nourished, looked after and the stereotype of the slaves led to the whip is beaten in breach by the discoveries made on the ground and in the tombs. The assumption was put forth that the project of the pyramids could have constituted a project federator and an average policy and spiritual to carry out the unit of the Two Grounds. To these craftsmen and semi-skilled workers came to join a labor come from the villages from all Egypt, undoubtedly in a nonpermanent way, and the villages also contributed to this religious great project by sending vivres.

Khoufou also built temples, in particular it started the construction of the temple of Hathor to Dendérah and one found in the foundations of the temple of Bastet to Bubastis of the elements of a monument to his name.

It is under this sumptuous reign for architecture and the royalty that the necropoles significantly develop around the royal funerary complex . This tendency already started under the preceding reigns and in particular that of his/her father Snéfrou had never become such extensive what would show that at the time of Khoufou the constitution of the state is completed and touches almost already with its apogee. The privilege of being able to be made bury at the sides of its Master then represented the best manner of posting its success in than was the Egyptian company of then. The king is in the center of all and dominates of sound crushing monument a vast necropolis which is designed with the image of the court. More its burial is for the royal pyramid plus the row is high. Many a Mastaba delivered the statues and them blank doors of these courtiers who thus in their death wished to continue their service with nearest to their sovereign.

Burial

The large pyramid of Khéops is a pyramid with smooth faces, located on the plate of Gizeh near Cairo, in Egypt. It is the largest pyramid of Egypt.

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