Ancient Egypt / MythologyKhufu's (Cheops) reign.(Originally Khnum-Khufu; birth name of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh; who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). Khufu was the second pharaoh of the 4th dynasty; he followed his possible father; king Sneferu; on the throne. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).3D Reconstruction of the the Khufu ship; an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship now is preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu's afterlife; and contained no bodies; unlike northern European ship burials.