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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.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [1] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre. [2]
It is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human, and the body of a lion. Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre.
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.
Djedefre married his brother Kawab's widow, Hetepheres II, Khafre, after Djedefre's death. [4] Another queen, Khentetenka is known from statue fragments in the Abu Rowash mortuary temple. [5] Known children of Djedefre are: Hornit (“Eldest King's Son of His Body”) known from a statue depicting him and his wife. [6]
Constructed in 2570 BC, the structure serves as the tomb of Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Khafre, who ruled for roughly 26 years. Its pyramid complex, ...
Khafre's enormous pyramid at Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, is surpassed only by his father's (the Great Pyramid). The Great Sphinx of Giza was also built for him, according to most Egyptologists. [2] Not much is known about Khafre aside from the reports of Herodotus, a Greek historian who wrote 2,000 years later.
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