1 {scene: The Pyramids}
1 Monty: Magnificent! Imagine the effort that went into building these.
2 Minnesota Jones: Actually, Cheops had a devil of a time—
2 Prof. Jones: An Apep of a time.
2 Minnesota Jones: —coaxing his workers to complete the topmost layers of the Great Pyramid.
3 Minnesota Jones: They wanted better working conditions, but whenever they saw the pharaoh they were awed by his godly presence and could only stammer incoherently.
4 Minnesota Jones: Until Cheops got angry and yelled at them, "Will you just get to the point!!"

Cheops is the Greek name of the pharaoh Khufu. When I was younger and learning about the Pyramids for the first time, I learnt that the pharaohs who built the three Great Pyramids were Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinos. For some reason the sources I learnt from preferred the Greek names, which I think was common at the time. In the original Ancient Egyptian the pharaohs' name's were Khufu, Khafra (or Khafre), and Menkaure.

The background photo is a composite of two photos that I took of the Pyramids in 1980, as a young child in my first ever overseas trip. The central peak is the Pyramid of Khufu.

The lower edges and the small auxiliary pyramid on the side are from a separate photo of the Pyramid of Menkaure and one of its attendant "Queen's pyramids".

I don't have any good photos of the Pyramids from a distance far enough away to make a good background panorama, so I had to stitch these originals together, including a mirrored copy of the second photo on the left side, and blend them to fake a wider background. I could have found a Creative Commons or public domain image on the web, but I prefer to use my own photos for backgrounds, and I actually have photos of the Pyramids, so I figured this was worth the effort.