Khufu
Khufu the Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid near Giza. The Greeks called him Cheops. He was a member of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, and is estimated to have lived at some time around 2600 B.C. Khufu reigned for 23 years. According to a legend reported by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, Khufu worked a slave force of 100,000 men during most of his reign to build the pyramid that served as his tomb. Modern historians doubt Herodotus' account, and many believe that the project involved as few as 4,000 workers, who were not slaves but free men drafted for the purpose.
In 1954 Egyptian archeologists found in pits beside the Great Pyramid two funeral boats designed to carry Khufu through the heavens forever in the wake of the sun.