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I took Will, Leslie and Christine to see
> some of the ancient graffiti [in the RC] that
> read, “friends of Khufu.” This is one of the
> names of the crew who built Khufu’s pyramid. I
> also showed them the sign of life, the sign of a
> pyramid, and an inscription that says, “year
> 17 of Khufu’s reign.”

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> Is Hawass lying or does he not know how to read
> ancient Egyptian?

I have seen something to this effect repeated on several pages:

"An inscription containing his highest regnal year, the "Year of the 17th Count of Khufu", first mentioned by Flinders Petrie in an 1883 book and then lost to historians, was rediscovered by Zahi Hawass in 2001 in one of the relieving chambers within Khufu's pyramid".

To resolve the matter we need the primary source.