The Funerary Temple of Khafre at Giza

Funerary Temple of Khafre at Giza

The funerary Temple of Khafre at Giza is best saved example of Old Kingdom layout. Huge stops make up the tample, about 13 metre long. Flanking the temple are boat pits, but no boats. Nearly 400 thousand causeway to the valley temple which broken in 1852. The limestone presented with Re Aswan granite.

Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

Pyramid of Khafre at Giza

Egypt is home to as many as 100 pyramids and the outstanding and famous of them all are the Pyramids of Giza. It is hard to imagine the close proximity of these historic social structures to the city of Cairo. After awakened up this morning to the constant hum of activity created by a city of or so 20 million people, we prepared ourselves for a day of cultural and historical risk. We drove 30 minutes South East and rapidly went far at the historic place that was nestled in the heavy city suburb of Giza. The size and the reach of the legendary stone mausoleums, which were constructed for the Kings and Queens of Egypt, were impressive. To me, the Nearly worrying of all the pyramids were the Pyramids of Giza, which comprise of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure. These ancient social organisations are the last continuing of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Inside the Pyramid of Khafre

The Pyramid of Khafre was built for King Khafre of the 4th Dynasty, who was one of the replacements of Khufu. As I glanced up from the bad of the pyramid at the top it felt as though I was looking at the jagged flowers of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Range. In this representative, however, it was men who used basic tools to build this mountain of cut gem in an otherwise bare landscape. 

Artifacts from the time of Khafre

Statue of Khafre with Horus

Statue of Khafre with Horus

This huge statue in Diorite, observed in the Valley Temple of Khefren's funerary complex at Giza, is one of the umpteen example of the high craft of the Old Kingdom. It represents Khefre, seated on an elaborate throne. There is only slight wrong to some places on the left-hand side of the statue. Eventhough the throne was made out of one bloc of great diorite, its legs are etched to resemble the manuses of lions, whose points grace the front of the seat.

The side impanels of the throne stock the sema-tawi symbol: the narrative plants of Upper and Lower Egypt are tied together in a knot around the hieroglyph corresponding the notion "unity". The sema-tawi symbol so comprises the one between Upper and Lower Egypt and would be held on thrones of kings passim the Ancient Egyptian history. Contrary to many other histrionics of thrones in Ancient Egypt, this throne appears to have a back, which, unluckily, is somewhat hurt. Seated regally on his throne, Khefren jades the nemes headdress adorned with a (weakened) ureaus. His eyes are narrow, the nose gross and the speak full. His round face gives forth power and confidence.


Other Artifacts of Khafre time:

Khafre's Sitting Statue

Alabaster Head of Granite Head

Granite Head of Granite Head

Limestone Head