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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mena7: [QB] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Menkaura.jpg/397px-Menkaura.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaure with Goddess Hathor and Bata [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Menkaura_Bust_Closeup.jpg/360px-Menkaura_Bust_Closeup.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaura [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Menkaura-FragmentaryStatueHead_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png/329px-Menkaura-FragmentaryStatueHead_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaure [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Menkaura-ColossalStatue_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png/232px-Menkaura-ColossalStatue_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaura [IMG]http://www.shenoc.com/menkaure.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaura [IMG]http://shenoc.com/mykerinos%202.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaura [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/MenkauraAndQueen_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png/288px-MenkauraAndQueen_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png[/IMG] Pharaoh Menkaure and Queen Kamermebty [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mykerinos_CG_42.jpg/396px-Mykerinos_CG_42.jpg[/IMG] Pharaoh Myke rinos Menkaure (also read as Menkaura), was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th dynasty during the Old Kingdom, who is well known under his Hellenized names Mykerinos (by Herodotus) and Menkheres (by Manetho). According to Manetho, he was the throne successor of king Bikheris, but according to archaeological evidences he rather was the successor of king Khafre. Menkaure became famous for his pyramid tomb at Giza and his beautiful statue triads, showing the king together with goddesses and his wife Khamerernebty Reign It´s still unsure how long Menkaure had really reigned. The ancient historian Manetho credits him with a rulership of 63 years, but this is surely an exaggeration. The Turin Canon is damaged at the spot where it should present the full sum of years, but the remains allow a reconstruction of “..?.. + 8 years of rulership”. Egyptologists think that a 18 year rulership was meant to be written, which is generally accepted. A contemporary workmen´s graffito reports about the “year after the 11th cattle count”. If the cattle count was held every second year (as it was a tradition at least up to king Sneferu), Menkaure might have ruled for 22 years. Pyramid complex Menkaure's pyramid at Giza was called Netjer-er-Menkaure which means "Menkaure is Divine". This pyramid is the smallest of the three pyramids at Giza. There are three subsidiary pyramids associated with Menkaure's pyramid. These pyramids are sometimes labeled G-IIIa (East subsidiary pyramid), G-IIIb (Middle subsidiary pyramid) and G-IIIc (West subsidiary pyramid). In the chapel associated with G-IIIa a statue of a Queen was found. It is possible that these pyramids were meant for the Queens of Khafra. It may be that Khamerernebti II was buried in one of the pyramids Family Menkaure was the son of Khafra and the grandson of Khufu. A flint knife found in the mortuary temple of Menkaure mentioned a king's mother Khamerernebty I, suggesting that Khafra and this queen were the parents of Menkaure. Menkaure is thought to have had at least two wives. Queen Khamerernebty II is the daughter of Khamerernebti I and the mother of a king's son Khuenre. The location of Khuenre's tomb suggests that he was a son of Menkaure, making his mother the wife of this king.[2][3] Queen Rekhetre is known to have been a daughter of Khafra and as such the most likely identity of her husband is Menkaure.[2] Not many children are attested for Menkaure: Khuenre was the son of queen Khamerernebti II. Menkaure was not succeeded by Prince Khuenre, his eldest son, who predeceased Menkaure, but rather by Shepseskaf, a younger son of this king.[4] Shepseskaf was the successor to Menkaure and likely his son. Sekhemre is known from a statue and possibly a son of Menkaure. A daughter that died in early adulthood is mentioned by Herodotus. She was placed at a superbly decorated hall of the palatial area at Sais, in a hollow gold layered wooden zoomorphic burial feature in the shape of a kneeling cow covered externally with a layer of red decoration except the neck area and the horns which were covered with adequate layers of gold.[5] Khentkaus I - possible Menkaure's daughter[6] The royal court included several of Menkaure's half brothers. His brothers Nebemakhet, Duaenre, Nikaure and Iunmin served as vizier during the reign of their brother. His brother Sekhemkare may have been younger and became vizier after the death of Menkaure [/QB][/QUOTE]
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