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Other rulers followed suit and by 2526 b.c. the design had been perfected and the world was graced by the Great Pyramid at Giza built for Khufu (or Cheops).
Giza was the site of a royal burial ground from the days of the Early Empire and the desert landscape is dotted with numerous mud brick tombs and mastabas (stone tombs with flat roofs), though they are by no means as impressive as the pyramids themselves.
Giza was not the only location where pyramids were built — there are many sites scattered throughout the western desert — and it was not the place where pyramid-building started.
Archaeologists have concluded that the Giza pyramids were built within a few hundred years of each other by generations of the same royal family c.2600 b.c. as elaborate tombs designed to foil robbers.
Not long before this time, between 2575–2550 b.c. , King Kephren had the Sphinx erected in his honor at Giza.