Tradition represents him as the builder of the great city of Memphis, near the head of the delta, and the constructor of vast engineering and irrigation works in that region. What is believed to be his tomb has been recently discovered (in 1897).
Since 1894 there have also been found monuments of other Pharaohs of the First Dynasty, besides various interesting memorials
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of the rulers of the two following dynasties. Thus slowly is the material for the history of these remote tunes being accumulated.[1]
25. The Fourth Dynasty: the Pyramid Kings (about 3700-3550 B.C.).—The kings of the Fourth Dynasty, who reigned at Memphis, are called the pyramid builders. Khufu, the Cheops of the Greeks, was the greatest of these rulers. He built the Great Pyramid, at Gizeh, the greatest mass of masonry that has ever been put together by mortal man."[2]
A recent fortunate discovery[3] enables us now to look upon the face of this Cheops (Fig. 13), one of the earliest and most renowned
- ↑ Recently the monuments of a number of kings who reigned in Egypt before Menes have been discovered. Some of these kings are known to have ruled over the lower as well as the upper country. Menes was formerly believed to have been the first king of all Egypt. The story of these earlier kings, as it may hereafter be learned from the monuments, must be called predynastic history.
- ↑ This pyramid rises from a base covering thirteen acres to a height of four hundred and fifty feet. According to Herodotus, Cheops employed one hundred thousand men for twenty years in its erection.
- ↑ Made by Flinders Petrie at Abydos. Read his article entitled "The Ten Temples of Abydos," in Harper's Magazine for November, 1903.
