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Chephren

American  
[kef-ruhn] / ˈkɛf rən /

noun

  1. Khafre.


Chephren British  
/ ˈkɛfrən /

noun

  1. See Khafre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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By May, if the Alvarez technique checks out, they will move the spark chamber to the nearby Second Pyramid or Pyramid of Chephren.

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One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid.

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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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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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And Chephren they said reigned fifty and six years.

From An Account of Egypt by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

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