Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) Great Pyramid of Giza - the largest of the Egyptian pyramids, the only one of the "Seven Wonders of the World", extant. Pyramid of Cheops is part of a complex of the largest of the Egyptian pyramids, located on the Giza Plateau. This - the pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), Chephren (Khafre) and Mycerinus (Menkaure). The architect of the Great Pyramid is considered Hemion, Vizier and nephew of Cheops. He also held the title of "Managing all construction projects of the pharaoh." More than three thousand years (before the construction of the cathedral in Lincoln, England, around 1300) the pyramid is the tallest building in the world.