Khufu
Life and reign
The builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only survivor of the seven wonders of the ancient world, 146 meters tall and stacked from more than two million blocks. Herodotus later recorded legends of his tyranny. His only surviving portrait is a tiny ivory figure found at Abydos.
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