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24 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 of the rulers of the two following dynasties. Thus slowly is the material for the history of these remote tunes being accumulated.

25. The Fourth Dynasty: the Pyramid Kings (about 3700-3550 ).—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."

A recent fortunate discovery enables us now to look upon the face of this Cheops (Fig. 13), one of the earliest and most renowned