s sealed, he found the coffer empty. Egyptologists assume that this was the final resting place of Khufu, but this evidence does not suggests that a corpse had ever been in this coffer or chamber. No clues have been found in the chamber or anywhere else in the pyramid that indicates that Khufu was ever buried there. The passageway leading from the Grand Gallery to the main chamber is too narrow to have any movement of the coffer. They suggest that it must have been placed in the chamber as the pyramid was being built. The Giza pyramids were built for the fourth Dynasty kings as funerary structures. It is a archaeological fact that none of the kings put their names on the pyramids that they supposedly built. Yet in the fifth Dynasty and onward the other pyramids that have been built have hundreds of names of who built them. The attribution to Khufu of the Great Pyramid is been founded upon three very circumstantial pieces of "evidence":1. The legends told to and reported by Herodotus who visited in 443 BC.2. The inscriptions cite Khufu as the reigning pharaoh.3. In the pyramid itself, they have found a slight resemblance to a hieroglyphic symbol for the name of Khufu. Pharaoh Khufu himself left no indication whatsoever that he built the Great Pyramid. He did, however, claim to have done repair work on the structure. On the recorded testimonies, Khufu tells of discoveries made while clearing away the sands from the pyramid, of his dedication of the monument to Isis, and of his building of the three small pyramids for himself, his wife, and his daughters next to the Great Pyramid. Regarding the chalk marks found within the pyramid, most hieroglyph experts now believe these to be forgeries left by their "discoverer" Richard Howard-Vyse, rather than being quarry inscriptions left by the original builders. Howard-Vyse was under pressure to equal the discoveries of his rival, the Italian explorer Caviglia, who had found inscri...
