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Khufu. Khufu (reigned 2590-2568 B.C.), or Cheops, was an Egyptian king who built the Great Pyramid at Giza and ruled as the second king of the Fourth Dynasty. The son and immediate successor of Queen Hetepheres and King Snefru, the founder of the Fourth Dynasty (ca. 2613-2494 B.C.), Khufu is perhaps better known by his Greek name, Cheops. His Great Pyramid at Giza marks the climax in pyramid building in respect to both size and quality of construction.
The outer stone layer of the pyramid of Khufu was built with Tura stones. This is a specially beautiful white limestone and is quarried in Tura, which lies to the southeast of Giza on the other side of the Nile.ven in 1639 the British John Greaves wrote, that the outer casing stones of Khafre's pyramid were intact except on the southern face [ 5 ]. This shows, that the ancient Egyptians interlocked the outer stones most thoroughly with the inner stones.