Khafre

who build at Giza and Abu Ruash, you see something really interesting.

Because first of all, you've got Jedef-Rei at Abu Ruash, and then Kai-ef-Rei, Kefren.

And Menkaure, who built the third pyramid at Giza.

Menkaure, exactly.

Abdadufri, his immediate successor, we can probably say that he reigned eight years.

But Khephren, the next son who succeeded to the throne, erected temples and a gigantic pyramid like his father.

He placed it some three hundred and ninety-four feet to the southwest of that of Cheops, and called it Iru the Great.

It is, however, smaller than its neighbor, and attains a height of only four hundred and forty-three feet.

Here the laborers employed on the works came every evening to huddle together, and the refuse of their occupation still encumbers the ruins of their dwellings, potsherds, chips of various kinds of hard stone which they had been cutting, granite, alabaster, diorite, fragments of statues broken in the process of sculpture, and blocks of smooth granite ready for use.

The chapel commands a view of the eastern front of the pyramid, and communicated by a paved causeway with the temple of the Sphinx, to which it must have borne a striking resemblance.

The plan of it can be still clearly traced on the ground, and the rubbish cannot be disturbed without bringing to light portions of statues, vases, and tables of offerings, some of them covered with hieroglyphs, like the mace head of white stone which belonged in its day to Khephren himself.

The internal arrangements of the pyramid are of the simplest character.

Yeah, of course

... for this sort of thing, uh, podcast with, uh, Filippo Biondi, of course, of synthetic aperture radar, Doppler tomography fame, who, uh, has these, uh, scans which he claims show these 20-meter-wide hollow tubular structures, eight of them below the Khafre Pyramid.

Total proof of concept for the actual, like, technique.

That's very, very nice, you said.

50% I don't believe it at all, 50% I see some potential in the technology to be utilized to discover hidden structures within the pyramids, which is really the impetus of their entire work, is to find things that have not been dar- documented by the conventional archeol- archeological process.

So I was about 50/50.

The more I looked into it after the Malta conference and after doing some digging and more videos on their second paper regarding the Khafre Pyramid, I was about 70/30.

70% I don't believe it, 30% thinking that there is some limited potential for the scanning technology to detect structures within the pyramids.

The Sphinx doesn't exist in isolation out there in the sand.

It's part of a larger complex, physically and according to most Egyptologists, architecturally connected to the pyramid of Khafre.

There's a causeway, a long processional pathway that runs from Khafre's valley temple up toward his pyramid.

The Sphinx sits just off to the side of this causeway, practically guarding it.

Right next to the Sphinx itself is a structure called the Sphinx Temple, and just beyond that sits Khafre's Valley Temple.

Built using massive limestone blocks and granite facing, here's what makes this connection so important.

The blocks used to build both the Valley Temple and the Sphinx Temple appear, at least according to conventional analysis, to have been quarried directly from the enclosure around the Sphinx.

It's clean, it's logical, and it's exactly the kind of evidence that keeps the conventional dating locked in place for most researchers.

Chapter 2.

The Memphite Empire, Part 4 Of Chephren's sons, Menkari, Mykerinos, who was his successor, could scarcely dream of excelling his father and grandfather.

His pyramid, the supreme huru, barely attained an elevation of 216 feet, and was exceeded in height by those which were built at a later date.

Up to one-fourth of its height it was faced with cyanide, and the remainder up to the summit with limestone.

It contained a sloping passage cut into the hill itself, and an oblong low-roofed cell devoid of ornament.

The main bulk of the work had been already completed, and the casing not yet begun, when it was decided to alter the proportions of the whole.

Mykerinos was not, it appears, the eldest son and appointed heir of Chephren.

While still a mere prince he was preparing for himself a pyramid similar to those which lie near the horizon, when the deaths of his father and brother called him to the throne.

It reappeared under the Ptolemies for the last time before becoming extinct forever.

Snofru was probably, therefore, one of the most popular kings of the good old times, but his fame, however great it may have been among the Egyptians, has been eclipsed in our eyes by that of the pharaohs who immediately followed him, Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinos.

Not that we are really better acquainted with their history.

All we know of them is made up of two or three series of facts, always the same, which the contemporaneous monuments teach us concerning these rulers.

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Chapter 2.

The Memphite Empire, Part 4 Of Chephren's sons, Menkari, Mykerinos, who was his successor, could scarcely dream of excelling his father and grandfather.

His pyramid, the supreme hieru, barely attained an elevation of 216 feet, and was exceeded in height by those which were built at a later date.