biography
| name: |
Cheops
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Greek form of Khufu
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pronunciation:
[keeops]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (26th-c BC)
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| biography:
| King of Memphis in Egypt, second ruler of the fourth dynasty. He is famous as the builder of the Great Pyramid. The Ship of Cheops is a funeral ship found dismantled at Giza in 1954 in one of five boat pits around the pyramid. |
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