Khafra

Khafre was the fourth king of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, reigning during the earlier half of the Old Kingdom around 2700–2200 BC. Son of Khufu and successor to his brother Djedefre, he inherited a tradition of building at a scale that defied후대 comprehension. His pyramid at Giza is surpassed in size only by his father's Great Pyramid. Some Egyptologists believe the Great Sphinx was carved for him as well, though the attribution remains unconfirmed. He died around 2532 BC, and nearly everything known about him comes from Herodotus, a Greek historian writing two thousand years after Khafre's reign —…