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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Above Chamber and passageway system of the Pyramid of Menkaure.
Below Chamber and passageway system of the Pyramid of Khafre.
In many ways this—rather than the absence of identifying marks—was
the central problem. Prior to the reigns of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure
there was not a single pharaoh whose name could be put forward as a
candidate. Khufu’s father Sneferu, the first king of the Fourth Dynasty,
was believed to have built the so-called ‘Bent’ and ‘Red’ Pyramids at
Dahshur, about thirty miles south of Giza—an attribution that was itself
mysterious (if pyramids were indeed tombs) since it seemed strange that
one pharaoh required two pyramids to be buried in. Sneferu was also
credited by some Egyptologists with the construction of the ‘Collapsed’
Pyramid at Meidum (although a number of authorities insisted that this
was the tomb of Huni, the last king of the Third Dynasty). The only other
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12 The Riddle of the Pyramids, p. 49.

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