Search to Find King Khufu Begins - but NOT in the Great Pyramid!

Archaeologists have begun searching for the remains of King Khufu, but not inside the Great Pyramid, but under Giza’s Western Cemetery! So was the Great Pyramid the final resting place of Khufu or not? This is the great question that divides researchers. On the one hand, if you were the powerful ruler of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, being entombed in the grandest structure ever built would of course be a fitting finale. But on the other hand, if you wanted your mummified body and your worldly goods to be kept safe for an eternity, would the Great Pyramid really be the best place to put them? Is it too much of a beacon, a vanity project that is bound to attract the inevitable unwanted attention of tomb robbers? There is no doubt that Giza was a funerary complex in the Old Kingdom - mastabas, burial chambers, human remains and grave goods have been found in abundance. But where is Khufu? Was the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid really his burial chamber? Herod