Ancient Egyptian Chronology, pp. 124-143, "Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5"

Ancient People

• Djedefre

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Third king of Dynasty 4. Son (?) of Khufu.
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  Khafre

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Fourth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khufu. Builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza and probably of the Great Sphinx as well. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Khephren. A number of diorite and greywacke statues and statue fragments depicting the king have been discovered in Khafre's valley temple, including Cairo CG 9-17. The fragmentary head of an alabaster royal statue (MFA 21.351 + MFA 33.1113) is attributed to Khafre.
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  Khufu

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Second king of Dynasty 4, son of Snefru. Builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Cheops. Horus name: [mDdw] Medjedu. Full birth-name: Khnum-Khufu.
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  Menkaure

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Fifth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khafre. Husband of Khamerernebti II. Builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Mycerinus.
• Shepseskaf

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Last king of Dynasty 4. Son of Menkaure. Horus name: [SpsXt] Shepseskhet.
• Snefru

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks First king of Dynasty 4. Father of Khufu.
• Thamphthis

  • Type Individual - Ancient
  • Remarks Possible son of Shepseskaf and last king of Dynasty 4, according to Manetho. Husband of Bunefer, according to Grdseloff. Only Greek version of name preserved.

Modern People

• David A. Warburton

  • Type Editor
  • Nationality & Dates
• Erik Hornung

  • Type Editor
  • Nationality & Dates
  • Remarks Swiss Egyptologist.
• Miroslav Verner

  • Type Author
  • Nationality & Dates Czech
• Rolf Krauss

  • Type Editor
  • Nationality & Dates
  • Remarks German Egyptologist.