Chapter 34: The Great Pyramid of Khufu

readx;? Khufu, as the Greeks called him Chiapus. The largest pyramid in Egypt www.biquge.info was the Great Pyramid of Khufu, which was built in his honor. It worships the sheep-headed god Knum, and Khufu is the name of the god Knum, i.e. Knum-Khufu.

Khufu was the son of Pharaoh Snefru and his wife Hetfrith, whose father was Huni, the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty. The name Khufu means "Knum God protects me", - abbreviation. Khufu had nine sons, of whom Regidev was his direct heir, and 15 daughters, one of whom would become Queen Hetepelis II.

During his reign, his rights were unchallenged, and Greek historians considered him an "abominable tyrant", but later Egyptians generally regarded him as a virtuous monarch. Khufu's character and the way in which he governed the country are difficult to find in today's literature, but there is evidence that he strengthened the empire created by his ancestors and strengthened the political rights that his ancestors had carefully crafted.

During Khufu's reign in Egypt, he continued his expeditions to Nubia and the Sinai Peninsula on the basis of his predecessors' north-south expeditions, consolidating the form of a unified North African power from the Nile Delta to the Nubian region. He strengthened his royal rule and made himself the embodiment of a god, and was revered as a "great god" in the inscription of his merits. His eldest son is the supreme minister, and all power is in the hands of the royal group. The reign of Khufu was the heyday of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, and he achieved centralized absolutist rule.

During his reign, there were rebellions in Sinai and Nubia, and Khufu made several expeditions to Sinai, Nubia, and Libya. The victory of the expedition is preserved on the rock reliefs of Wadi Maghati, a copper and turquoise mining area in the Sinai Peninsula, with the inscription "Knum-Khufu, great god, destroyer of the Yuntu (an indigenous tribe of the Sinai Peninsula, probably referring to the Bedouins)". The name of Khufu has also been found in the Nubian diorite pit northwest of Abu al-Simbail. Recent archaeological discoveries include the discovery of Khufu's inscriptions in some places far from Giza, perhaps suggesting that Khufu really belonged to one of the most powerful pharaohs in Egyptian history.

The Pyramid of Khufu is one of the most majestic of the Egyptian pyramids, so it is called the Great Pyramid. Theodorus in the l century BC listed Khufu's pyramid as one of the "Seven Wonders of the World". The Great Pyramid is the crystallization of the high wisdom and labor blood and sweat of the ancient Egyptian people, and it is also a prominent manifestation of the absolutist rule of the slave monarchy in ancient Egypt. Its architect was Khufu's brother Hemion. It is located in the Giza region, north of Memphis, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Egypt, near modern-day Cairo. Khufu was the first pharaoh to build pyramids in the Giza region.

The base of the great pyramid is square, each side is more than 230 meters long, 146.5 meters high, and the inclination angle of the inclined plane is 51 °. Due to the ventilation and damage of the top of the tower for thousands of years, the base of the tower is dragged by sand and stones, and the height is only l37.18 meters. The base of the tower is now only 227 meters on each side. Until the inauguration of the 320-meter Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889, the Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world. The Great Pyramid is surrounded by many flat-topped stone tombs of nobles, and the stars holding the moon set off the majesty and majesty of the Great Pyramid.

The Pyramid of Khufu took 30 years to build, employing an average of 100,000 people a year, and using about 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite of various sizes stacked on top of each other, without any adhesive material in between. The stones used are carefully processed, and the stones fit perfectly into each other, and even after more than 4,000 years of wind and rain, not even a sharp knife can be inserted between the cracks. Each block weighs an average of 2.5 tons, with the heaviest reaching more than 30 tons.

The Great Pyramid is not only known for its large and majestic appearance, but also for the intricacy of its internal structure. There are three burial chambers of different heights inside the tower, the burial chamber was originally built at the bottom of the tower, and then a burial chamber was built in the middle of the tower, two on the ground and one underground, and the granite used in the burial chamber was transported from Aswan, which was a thousand kilometers away. There are also facilities such as large contours and vents in the Great Pyramid. The entrance to the pyramid is 13 meters above the ground on the north side of the tower, which is triangular in shape, so that the weight of the tower body is evenly spread out so that the passage mouth will not be crushed.

The Westkásy Khuser Papyrus, completed in the Middle Kingdom and even later, records stories about Khufu told by Khufu's sons, Khafre and Regidev, which portray Khufu as a tyrant who hoped to rule forever, but this delusion was ultimately thwarted. It is not known for sure whether these stories were based on facts, but Khufu's notoriety was passed on, and by the time of Herodotus, the pharaoh had heard stories of cruelty to his people and family in order to ensure the construction of his pyramids. What is certain, however, is that Egyptian folk worship of his tomb continued until 2,000 years after his death, the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, the last native Egyptian dynasty.

Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian, traveled to Egypt more than 2,000 years after the Great Pyramid was built, and recorded the legends he heard about the construction of the pyramids. The Great Golden Woo Pagoda built by Khufu in Egypt is well known. The pyramids were the tombs of ancient Egyptian kings, and the latest discoveries by leading archaeologists show that the construction of a pyramid would have taken at least 30 years to build when the pyramid was built entirely by hand. Archaeologists also found the remains of living facilities such as collective dormitories for laborers and labor cemeteries in the area near the pyramids, and found a large number of tools for measuring, calculating, and processing stone tools among the burial goods of the deceased.

According to Herodotus, Khufu was a brutal monarch, Khufu forced the Egyptian people to do hard labor, mostly poor farmers and craftsmen, every 100,000 people as a group, each group of laborers built for 3 months, it took 30 years to build the Great Pyramid, of which it took 10 years to build a road to transport stones. However, archaeological discoveries have shown that the vast majority of the people who built the Great Pyramid were laborers rather than slaves, and that they received good food and medical care, so it is difficult to confirm that the material for Khufu as a tyrant is based on oral legends much later.