Menkaure

He was the son and probably the successor of Khafre and, according to the Turin papyrus, reigned for 18 or 28 years. According to tradition Menkaure was a pious and just king. Although his pyramid and mortuary temple were unfinished at his death, his successor Shepseskaf completed the stonework of the mortuary temple in brick. In the funerary complex were found some of the finest sculptures of the Pyramid Age including a slate statue group of Menkaure and his sister wife Khamerernebti the 2nd and a number of smaller slate triads representing Menkaure the goddess Hathor and various nome deities.

Khufu was known to the ancient Greeks as Cheops Old Egyptian was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty in the first half of the Old Kingdom period .

was an ancient Egyptian king of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He was the son of Khufu and the throne successor of Djedefre. According to the ancient historian Manetho, Khafre was followed by king Bikheris but according to archaeological evidence he was instead followed by king Menkaure. Khafre was the builder of the second largest pyramid of Giza. The view held by modern Egyptology at large continues to be that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC for Khafre. Not much is known about Khafre, except from the historical reports of Herodotus, writing 2,000 years after his life, who describes him as a cruel ruler who kept the Egyptian temples closed after Khufu had sealed them.