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The relief chambers are low, each only a few feet high, and
their flat upper covering consists of huge, roughly cut blocks of
pink granite. Only the highest of the chambers have saddle
ceilings. Their side walls are made of limestone and granite.
Here, on the walls of these chambers, many builders marks were
preserved, along with the graffiti of modern visitors. Petrie
claims to have found a cattle census of the seventeenth year,
which would have, if proven, be the latest dating of Khufu's
reign. It should be noted that the markings in the relief chambers,
which were never meant to be entered, provide us with the most
compelling evidence of the ownership of the pyramid.

The present entrance to the chambers is located in the south
wall of the Great Gallery, under the ceiling, at the upper end. The
lowest of the relieve chambers was visited in the eighteenth
century by Nathanial Davison, and English diplomat. Today it
bears his name, while the lower chambers were later named after
England's Lord nelson, Duke Wellington and Lady Ann
Arbuthnot. The largest was named after the Scottish diplomat
and amateur archaeologist, Patrick Campbell. This whole
structure, from the bottom of the King's Chamber to the top of
the Campbell Chamber, is about -twenty-one meters high.

In the King's Chamber, situated near the west wall, is what
we believe to be Khufu's pink granite sarcophagus, oriented
north-south. It is 2.24 meters long and 96 meters wide. The cover

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