The pyramid of Khafre is one of the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, as it is the middle of the three Egyptian pyramids. It was built by King Khafre, fourth king of the fourth family, son of King Khufu. He married Princess Ankh berths. The rule of twenty-six years. The second pyramid was built from the pyramids of Giza, and it is lower than the pyramid of his father (Khufu). Its height was 143 meters and now 136 meters.
It was built over an area of 215 square meters, and it has two entrances on the northern side. It still preserves part of its outer cladding at the summit. Within its hierarchical group, statues of schist stone were found in the private valley temple. Among them is a statue of the most beautiful produced by the Egyptian art of sculpture, which is present in the Egyptian Museum, and is attributed to him sculpting the rock of the Sphinx.
The pyramid of Khafre is located southwest of the pyramid of his father Khufu. It has a height of 143.5 meters, a length of 215.5 meters, and an angle of inclination of 53.10 °. It is located at ground level, and the entrance leads to a descending corridor, with a granite roof and a slope angle of 22 degrees. It ends at a rampart that leads to a horizontal corridor, then a sloping corridor leads to a chamber called the burial chamber error, which is empty carved into the rock, and the vestibule leads to another parapet that rises to the top with a horizontal passage that ends with the burial room, and this room has a gabled roof constructed with limestone, and almost in the middle The pyramid, Khafre called his pyramid (the Great).
The pyramid of Khafre was designed to be the second longest pyramid in the Giza region, and in order to compensate for the difference in size between the pyramid of Khafre and the largest pyramid of Khufu, this pyramid was built on a higher area to compensate for the shortfall in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid, in addition to a complex around this middle pyramid, and this contains The complex contains many statues that have been carved around this pyramid, and the most prominent of these statues is the Great Sphinx, and this ancient pyramid was designed through the presence of horizontal paths so that the pyramid was built sequentially leading to the top of the pyramid, so that the stones of large size in The lower side of the pyramid, while the smaller stones are on the upper side of the pyramid.
The design of this pyramid differs from the rest of the other Egyptian pyramids, as most Egyptian pyramids contain hidden entrances that do not seem to the beholder, as for the pyramid of Khafre, it was designed in a different way as it contains two visible entrances leading to the burial chamber inside the pyramid, which contains a tomb King Khafre, and different circumstances and factors have contributed from the time of building this pyramid to the present time to the occurrence of a state of erosion in the pyramid, in addition to the occurrence of significant erosion in the models and statues surrounding the pyramid, including the Sphinx, and a group of stone blocks are spread around the pyramid. Erosion processes that affected the pyramid and the statues around it.
