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Sunday, October 3, 2010

The pyramid of king khafre(part 1)

 The pyramid of king khafre
 The pyramid of king khafre
It was built next to the south-west of his father Khufu and looks as follows:
- its height is 143.5 meters.
- the length of each side is 215.5 meters.
- and the inclination angle is  53.10.
it’s situated  on ground level, the entrance leads to  corridor downtrend. it has a roof of the granite and the angle of descent 22 degree. the pyramid ends at the barricade to enter the Horizontal corridor, then this ramp leads to the compartment called the wrong compartment burial,it’s empty and carved in the rock, it continues to barricade the corridor we find another rise to the top horizontal corridor ends burial chamber. in this room roof (Jamalone) constructed with limestone , almost is in the middle of the pyramid.

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