Khufu

Khufu was the ruler of Egypt (2589-2566 BC) during the Fourth Dynasty and was also known as Cheops. He is generally credited with the commissioning of the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Herodotus accused Khufu of using slaves to build the Great Pyramid, but recent discoveries suggest that not slaves, but conscripted labourers were used. However, Khufu’s role in the building of the Great Pyramid has been disputed. Andrew Gough published a lengthy paper on the life of Khufu^(b).

In 2021 Marco M. Vigato involved himself in the long-running debate regarding whether Khufu was responsible for the building of Giza’s Great Pyramid. Following a ten-point argument supporting Khufu as the builder of the GP by Matt Sibson, whom we’ve met before in these pages, Vigato responded by producing a list of fifteen reasons why Khufu was NOT the builder of the GP^(a).

Zecharia Sitchin, the controversial ‘alternative’ historian, entered the fray in 1980, with the claim that the only concrete evidence that the Great Pyramid had been built by Khufu, was a cartouche forged by Colonel Richard Howard-Vyse^(c). In 2016 Scott Creighton published The Great Pyramid Hoax ^[2088] endorsing Sitchin’s forgery claim. Jason Colavito has written a two-part review of Creighton’s book^(d)(e).

^(a) https://www.academia.edu/45014007/15_Reasons_why_Khufu_did_NOT_build_the_Great_Pyramid

^(b) https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_khufu/

^(c) https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/archive-2494/

^(d) https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-scott-creightons-the-great-pyramid-hoax-part-1

^(e) https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-scott-creightons-the-great-pyramid-hoax-part-two