somebody other than Djedefra does not seem very plausible." Verner also notes that the French-Swiss team excavating Djedefre's pyramid have discovered that...

Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other...

The oldest possible source of royal name may come from an unfinished pyramid shaft at Zawyet el'Aryan. The shaft was excavated in 1904 by Italian Egyptologist...

brother Djaty. After Horbaef's death, Meresankh married one Pharaoh, either Djedefra or Khafre and she became a queen. So, Nebty-tepites was a niece and step-daughter...

2589 BC Built at least three pyramids at Dahshur (including the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid) and Meidum (Meidum pyramid). He introduced major innovations...

4146. ISSN 0021-8103. Gustave Jéquier, Maṣlaḥat al-Āthār (1993): Les pyramides des reines Neit et Apouit (in French), Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie...

horns. The Egyptologist Lana Troy, however, identifies a passage in the Pyramid Texts from the late Old Kingdom that connects Hathor with the "apron" of...

dynasty). Khafra (4th dynasty), builder of the second largest pyramid at Giza. Djedefra (also 4th dynasty), first pharaoh using the sun symbol in a royal...