So there is a kind of apogee during the reign of Khufu. No doubt, then, that this people was organized into an independent, powerful state, equipped with all the trades necessary for public life. The amount of workers needed for its construction as well as the tenacity it was necessary to show shows an organization of the Egyptian people without fault.

The grandeur of this complex, which has no equal in all of ancient Egypt, shows the importance of the king (Pharaoh) in the Egyptian civilization of the middle of the third millennium. The best known is its funeral complex that we know through the famous pyramid of Khufu. The least that can be said about Khufu is that he built three major architectural elements. With his third wife Noubet he had Khentetenka, Djédefrê and Hétep-Hérès II and finally with his fourth wife he had Néfermaât, Néfertkaou, Ka-Néfer and Âkhkhâf. With his second wife Hénoutsen he had Khoufoukhâf, Khéphren, Khâmerernebty I and Minkhâf. In practice, Khufu got married with Meritites I and had Kaub I, Baoufrê, Djédefhor and Mérésânkh II. It should be noted, therefore, that the brother-sister relationship was not a hindrance to the husband-wife relationship.

Khufu had 12 children from four different wives, including Kaub I, who was supposed to be his successor but died before he could take over, Djédefrê who will succeed his father, Khafra who will follow Djedefrê and Hétep-Hérés II, who will become the wife of Djédefrê.

It was around in -2550 (to two years, the dates diverge). When Snefrou I disappeared it was naturally Khufu who took the throne of Egypt. Married to his half sister Hetephérés I, he had a first son, Khufu, then two other sons of a second wife, thereafter. We know that Khufu was the son of Snefru, the founding pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. However certain facts are established, archaeologically speaking. The great number of years separating us from the birth of Khufu should make us humble in the face of the accuracy of genealogical information. We do not know many elements of his life, his biography is largely incomplete. It is mainly known for being the one for which the largest pyramid of Egypt was built, on the Giza Plateau. Khufu is the name of the second pharaoh of the IVth Dynasty in ancient Egypt.

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