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Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza , Egypt . It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , and the only one to remain largely intact.

Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (often Hellenicised as "Cheops") and was constructed over a 20-year period. Khufu's vizier , Hemon , or Hemiunu , is believed by some to be the architect of the Great Pyramid.

280 Egyptian cubits tall, 146.5 metres (480.6 ft) but with erosion and absence of its pyramidion , its present height is 138.8 metres (455.4 ft). The pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, [ 8 ] unsurpassed until the 160-metre-tall (520 ft) spire of Lincoln Cathedral was completed c.

ft) vertically above ground level and 7.29 metres (23.9 ft) east of the center line of the pyramid.

From this original entrance there is a Descending Passage 0.96 metres (3.1 ft) high and 1.04 metres (3.4 ft) wide which goes down at an angle of 26° 31'23" through the masonry of the pyramid and then into the bedrock beneath it.

including small pyramids. The Pyramid Temple, which stood on the east side of the pyramid and measured 52.2 metres (171 ft) north to south and 40 metres (130 ft) east to west, has almost entirely disappeared apart from the black basalt paving.

of the Middle Kingdom. However, as authors Briar and Hobbs claim, "all the pyramids were robbed" by the New Kingdom, when the construction of royal tombs in a desert valley, now known as the Valley of the Kings , began. Joyce Tyldesley states that the Great Pyramid itself "is known to have been opened and emptied by the Middle Kingdom", before the Arab caliph Abdullah al-Mamun entered the pyramid around AD 820.