Khufu/Cheops
2551-2528 B.C.
Egyptian pharaoh during the fourth dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 B.C.) who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. This pyramid, the largest built by any pharaoh, was part of a funerar...
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Khufu (reigned 2590-2568 B.C.), or Cheops, was an Egyptian king who built the Great Pyramid at Giza and ruled as the second king of the Fourth Dynasty.The son and immediate successor of Queen Hetepher...
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Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone and a bust of Nefertiti.The country's chief archaeologis...
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Egypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel.Zahi Hawass rattled world muse...
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