Chephren
Americannoun
noun
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In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh.
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One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid.
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Greatest of these is the statue of Chephren, builder of the second pyramid and the Sphinx at Giza.
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Rubble and rock dust crumbling from the pyramid of Chephren have accumulated in piles on its lower levels.
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When Cheops had reigned fifty years he was succeeded by his brother Chephren, who also built a pyramid, though not equal in size to the other, and without any chamber or subterranean canal.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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