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Jan 5, 2023 13:38:49 #

ssymeono Loc: St. Louis, Missouri

Stardust wrote:

Although your facts are roughly correct your photo is not. The first shows Khafre's, the 2nd largest with some of the capping still on it. I climbed inside Khufu's to the Tomb room first trip, to the Khafre tomb room 2nd trip. What an experience! Nice photos.

BTW, Khafres (capped one) looks taller in your photos because it sits up on a hill, the larger Khufu is in a depression.

You are correct about identifying the great pyramids of Khufu (Cheops in Greek) and Khafra (Chefren in Greek) but not about visiting the burial chamber of the second. The small chamber below the pyramid of Khafra was made to deceive the tomb rubbers, the real chamber has not been found. The tomb rubbers had vandalized the pyramids, professional archaeologists have not entered intact pyramids out of respect for the dead. The name of the Pharaoh of the third pyramid is Menkaura. The reason for using the Greek names is simply because they have vowels and never change. The Egyptians did not use vowels, only consonants and semi-vowels. The name of the sun god is sometimes spelled today as Re or Ra, the latter is now considered as being closer to the original pronunciation.

Jan 5, 2023 14:21:30 #