The silent enigma of the pyramids can be like a blank canvas ready to accept the latest outlandish theory about its builders … The Pharaoh Khufu ordered the construction of this engineering marvel as a monument and tomb for all eternity, and yet we know very little about the man himself. Egypt’s Great Pyramid Uncovered, Channel 4 2020
So really it was in the interests of Khufu to have a happy well-fed well-organised and healthy workforce. ibid. Salima Ikram
Even by modern standards it’s an engineering phenomenon … It weighs some six million tons. ibid.
Why put so much effort into aligning the pyramids so accurately? … It mirrored the pharaoh’s only supernatural alignment with the sun-god Ra. ibid.
At the heart of the pyramid is a granite tomb where the dead king’s mummified body would lie for an eternity. ibid.