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Menkaure was the son of Khafre and the grandson of Khufu. A flint knife found in the mortuary temple of Menkaure mentioned a king's mother Khamerernebty I, suggesting that Khafre and this queen were the parents of Menkaure. Menkaure is thought to have had at least two wives.
Reisner speculated that the structures were likely tombs for the queens of Menkaure, and that the individuals buried there may have been his half-sisters. [12] The archaeologist Mark Lehner argues that pyramid G3-a has a layout akin to a ka pyramid, which would have housed a statue of the king rather than a body.
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.
Menkaure's pyramid complex consists of a valley temple, a causeway, a mortuary temple, and the king's pyramid. The valley temple once contained several statues of Menkaure. During the 5th Dynasty, a smaller ante-temple was added on to the valley temple. The mortuary temple also yielded several statues of Menkaure.
The deified Hare nome; closeup of a statue group of pharaoh Menkaure, Fourth Dynasty of Egypt [1]. The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Ancient Egyptian: wnt "Cape hare") was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt.
This would imply that Khamerernebty II was the daughter of King Khafre and Khamerernebty I. [2] Khamerernebty II was the mother of the King's Son Khuenre, who is thought to be the son of Menkaure. This suggests that Khamerernebty II must have married her brother Menkaure. [3] Statue of Egyptian Pharaoh Mycerinus (Menkure) and Khamerernebty II
King's Son of His Body, Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt, Sole Confidant. 4th Dynasty: Tomb contains 2 shafts and a chapel. G 8154: Rock-cut tomb: Sekhemkare: Eldest King's Son of His Body, Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt, Director of the Palace, Director of the Scribes of the Book of His Father, etc. 4th Dynasty (Khafre) to early 5th ...
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.Made of anorthosite gneiss, a valuable, extremely hard, and dark stone, it was brought 1,000 km (620 mi) down the Nile River from the "Khafre quarries" west of Gebel el-Asr. [1]