King Sneferu, Khufu's father, built the Bent pyramid. The building gene must have run in the family because Khufu built a pyramid, the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Khufu did not use slaves to build the Great Pyramid. Instead people who could not stay at their homes because of the Nile River’s annual flooding built the pyramid. In return they got clothes, food, and other objects needed daily by their families.