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The Egyptians said that this Kheops reigned for fifty years; at his death he was succeeded by his brother Khephren, who was in all respects like Kheops. Khephren also built a pyramid, smaller than his brother's. I have measured it myself.
The Egyptians said that this Kheops reigned for fifty years; at his death he was succeeded by his brother Khephren, who was in all respects like Kheops. Khephren also built a pyramid, smaller than his brother's. I have measured it myself.
[2] It has no underground chambers, nor is it entered like the other by a canal from the
Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), Africa
Nile
, but the river comes in through a built passage and encircles an island, in which, they say,
Kheops himself lies.
[3] This pyramid was built on the same scale as the other, except that it falls forty feet short of it in height; it stands near the great pyramid; the lowest layer of it is of variegated
Ethiopian stone. Both of them stand on the same ridge, which is about a hundred feet high.
Khephren, they said, reigned for fifty-six years.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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