id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4058 Khafre - Wikipedia .html text/html 2851 562 80 Alabaster statue of Khafre, probably from Memphis, now in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. Khafre (also read as Khafra and Greek: Χεφρήν Khephren or Chephren) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. The view held by modern Egyptology at large continues to be that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC for Khafre.[2] Not much is known about Khafre, except from the historical reports of Herodotus, writing 2,000 years after his life, who describes him as a cruel ruler who kept the Egyptian temples closed after Khufu had sealed them. Queen Meresankh III was the daughter of Kawab and Hetepheres II and thus a niece of Khafre. Main article: Pyramid of Khafre Khafre in ancient Greek traditions[edit] ^ a b c d Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume III: Memphis, Part I Abu Rawash to Abusir. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4058.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4058.txt