Mini: 30 Years of Khufu? New Evidence from the Great Pyramid

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How archaeology can increase your life expectancy by 40%! For centuries, popular perceptions of the Great Pyramid’s construction have hinged on Herodotos reference to “twenty years.” While historians have debated that, hard evidence on the reign of Khufu (and its length) has always been fragmentary. In the past ten years, though, things have changed substantially. We now have strong evidence that Khufu reigned much longer than the “twenty years” story. This fundamentally changes our understanding of the period, and the Great Pyramid project… More information: Episode image: Khufu, small ivory statuette from Abydos (Egyptian Exploration Society archives). The Memorial/Mortuary Temple of Khufu at Wikimedia Commons. New blocks from the Khufu Memorial Temple: Hawass, Lehner, and Jones, ‘The Great Pyramid Temple Project’, AERAGram 21 (2020), 10—17 (free download). Decorated blocks of Khufu, reused in later pyramids: Goedicke 1971, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (free download). M. Lehner and Z. A. Hawass, Giza and the Pyramids (2017). F. Monnier and D. Lightbody, The Great Pyramid 2590 BC Onwards: Operations Manual (2019). P. Tallet and M. Lehner, The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids (2021). M. Verner, The Pyramids: The Archaeology and History of Egypt’s Iconic Monuments (2020). Support the History of Egypt Podcast at www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.0	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Hello and welcome to a history of Egypt podcast mini episode. This is 30 years of Kufu?
0:43.4	A discussion of the Great Pyramid and recent developments.
0:48.8	This episode was written in late 2023.
0:52.1	It's been about 10 years since I originally researched and wrote my episode
0:56.8	about Kufu and The Great Pyramid of Giza. At the time of writing I am currently beginning to prepare a remaster of that episode,
1:04.8	which will substantially expand the discussion and analysis of the Great Pyramid itself, the complex and monuments surrounding it, and the reign of Kufu and the society in which he lived.
1:17.0	There is a lot of information that I did not get around to covering in my original episode.
1:22.0	So at the moment I am in the preparation stages of a complete remaster.
1:27.2	That will take some time, it's going to be a big project, but for those who are particularly
1:32.0	interested in the Old Kingdom, just know that I am working on that.
1:36.0	For now, I have some interesting information to share, material that has only come to light in the years since I released my original episode and this information
1:45.3	may substantially impact our assessment of the reign of King Kufu. The year was 2,600 B.C.
2:04.3	approximately.
2:05.3	That's just a ballpark to give us a starting point.
2:09.0	At the time, the people of Egypt lived under the rule of Khhenum Khufu, the Horace Mejedu, the king of southern and northern Egypt.
2:19.4	Surprisingly, the reign of King Khuffu is quite vague historically.
2:24.0	We have little bits and pieces of information that give a sense of what the Egyptian government was doing,
2:30.0	but apart from a few small records, some later stories and historical traditions, we really
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