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Khafre Enthroned is a Ka statue of the King Khafre, who reigned during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.It is now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.The construction is made of anorthosite gneiss (related to diorite), a valuable, extremely hard, and dark stone brought 400 miles down the Nile River from royal quarries.
They describe a king Menkaure (whom they call "Mykerînós") as the follower of Khafre and that this king was the counterpart of his two predecessors: Herodotus describes Menkaure as bringing peace and piety back to Egypt. [9] [10] [11] Of all the rulers of the Old Kingdom, Khafre is evidenced by the greatest number of statues.
The Palermo stone fragment C2 reports the creation of two colossal standing statues of the king - one of copper and the other of pure gold. [2] [8] Head of Khufu. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c. 2500 BC. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich. Several statue heads also survive, which are sometimes attributed to Khufu on account of their stylistic ...
From north to south: parts of the city of Giza, the Giza Necropolis, and part of the Giza plateau. The Giza Plateau (Arabic: هضبة الجيزة) is a limestone plateau in Giza, Egypt, the site of the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramid complex, which includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex.
Khafre's famous statue, where a falcon was incorporated into his headgear, equated the king to the god Horus. This fact, however, caused controversy. It was pitting Khafre's allegiance to Horus against the growing Cult of Ra, not far away in Helipolis. [11] Kings no longer associated pyramids with the afterlife. The afterlife was once believed ...
The adventurous dog that climbed all the way to the top of the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt has finally descended. ... the structure serves as the tomb of Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Khafre, who ruled ...
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