Due the story, the sons of Khufu entertain their father by telling him stories about magicians and miracles which were witnessed under Khufu´s ancestors Djoser, Nebka and Sneferu.
Other changes came in the reign of Sneferu, who, beginning with his first pyramid at Meidum, built pyramid complexes symmetrically along an east–west axis, with a valley temple on the banks of the Nile linked to a pyramid temple at the foot of the pyramid.
Sneferu, the first king of Dynasty IV, is given the credit of completing the first true pyramid, known as the Red Pyramid, after he built and abandoned the Bent Pyramid and probably after he finished the Meidum Pyramid.
It is possible that Hetepheres was only a minor wife of Sneferu and only rose in prominence after her son ascended the throne.
If Kanefer does date to the 4th dynasty and is a son of Sneferu, he may have followed his brother Nefermaat I in office as vizier and served during the latter part of Sneferu's reign.
The stone quarry for the structure is located west of the North Pyramid of Sneferu.
Meresankh II shares her name with her great-grandmother Meresankh I, mother of Sneferu.
She was a daughter of Pharaoh Sneferu and one of his wives and she was a half-sister to Pharaoh Khufu.
The Old Kingdom and its royal power reached a zenith under the Fourth Dynasty (2613–2494 BC), which began with Sneferu (2613–2589 BC).
A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion, thought to have been created for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, has been reconstructed and is on open-air display beside that pyramid; it presents a minor mystery, however, as its angle of inclination is steeper than that of the edifice it was apparently created to surmount.
He has participated in numerous excavations at Elephantine, Thebes and Dahshur, the latter of which he explored and wrote about the Bent Pyramid and the valley temple of King Sneferu.
Ranefer was a son of pharaoh Sneferu, who was the first ruler of the Fourth dynasty, and one of his wives.
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Iynefer I, an Egyptian prince of the Fourth Dynasty, son of Sneferu
They all died before Snofru, because their younger half-brother Khufu became king after Sneferu.