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Khafre Enthroned is a Ka statue of the Pharaoh 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, a valuable, extremely hard, and dark stone brought 400 miles down the Nile River from royal quarries. [1]
Pyramid G2-a is the name of the satellite pyramid of Khafre. The structure was located on the south side of the main pyramid, along its centerline, and likely housed a statue dedicated to the king's ka. [1] The structure contains two descending passages: The first opened on the north side of the pyramid and terminated in a small chamber.
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.
It depicts a mature man and was therefore likely made during the reign of Khafre (circa 2520–2494 BC). One of the earliest – and even after four and a half thousand years, still among the finest – true sculptured portraits, it is an almost unprecedented depiction of the unidealised features of an actual man.
English: The statue of Khafre from his valley temple at Giza, now in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. Fourth Dynasty, 26th century BC. Fourth Dynasty, 26th century BC. Date
The sculpture of the Seated Scribe or Squatting Scribe is a famous work of ancient Egyptian art.It represents a figure of a seated scribe at work. The sculpture was discovered at Saqqara, north of the alley of sphinxes leading to the Serapeum of Saqqara, in 1850, and dated to the period of the Old Kingdom, from either the 5th Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE or the 4th Dynasty, 2620–2500 BCE.
The dog that gained widespread attention after climbing one of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza has successfully descended and is safe again with his fellow four-legged friends. Paramotor ...
The Giza pyramid complex (also called the Giza necropolis) in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC. The site also ...