Khufu's successor Djedefre (a.k.a. Radjedef)
Posted on 05/22/2010 11:43:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Vassil Dobrev stated that the pyramid may actually be a solar temple. However, Baud dismisses these claims....
Nearly 4,500 years ago, in the time of the Old Kingdom, the pharaoh Khufu built one of the greatest monuments on earth -- the Great Pyramid. His pyramid was actually a complex of monuments at Giza. Using up 2.7 million cubic meters of stone, it incorporated three queens' pyramids, a satellite pyramid and hundreds of mastaba tombs for his officials. At a height of nearly 147 meters it was the tallest human-made monument in the world -- up until the construction of the Lincoln Cathedral in the 14th century AD.
So what did Khufu's successor do? The person who succeeded him as pharaoh would have had a tough act to follow. We know that the person who succeeded him as pharaoh was a man called Djedefre (also spelled Radjedef). He was Khufu's son and, like his father, would have had access to the vast resources of the Egyptian state.
His reign is estimated at 11 years and in that time we know that he built a pyramid complex at a place called Abu Roash. Sadly it has not stood the passage of time very well. During the Roman period (ca. 2000 years ago) the pyramid was quarried for its stone and, as such, there is little left standing today. The 20th century has also not been kind to this monument -- during the last century it was used as a military camp and its proximity to Cairo exposed it to modern development.
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Khufu's successor Djedefre (a.k.a. Radjedef)
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Can’t one of these ancient ruins be a fast food restaurant or casino? Why does everything have to be a temple of some sort?
Most of the time (and particularly during the Old Kingdom) the Egyptians used stone to build their important stuff such as tombs and temples, and used mud brick (sometimes on stone foundations, or on bedrock) to build their homes and other day to day structures. Near the Giza complex there are military-like parallel streets with a series of basically identical structures on each hand; the workforce needed to eat, obviously, and instead of (for example) building bigger ovens, they constructed a large number of “project” bakeries, of brick and stone.
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt was interesting in that it used mudbrick for most of its construction, with the occasional addition of Old Kingdom relief work and such, in stone, nabbed out of older, disused monuments.
Djedefre is little-known, which is weird to me; he succeeded Khufu, and was probably succeeded by his young son. Khafre, Djedefre’s brother (or half-brother) at some point (and by uncertain means) succeeded the nephew, who left very little behind. Khafre built the second largest Giza pyramid.
Menkaure was Khafre’s successor, and built the third largest (and a great deal smaller) Giza pyramid. Menkaure’s successor built a mastaba at Saqqara, my guess is, he lost control of Egypt, and ruled only part of it for a time.
......Why does everything have to be a temple of some sort?.....
Because astromerical archeology is not yet accepted by consensus to allow another interpretation
Ah, here we go... the unfinished pyramid of Djedjefre — son and successor to Khufu — was used as a quarry by the Romans, and when rediscovered in the 18th or 19th c, by modern vandals, who removed many a camel-load.
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