Word: khephren
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very awe which the massive dimensions of the pyramids inspired, would...
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