Khephren

Khephren (c. 2600-2532 BCE) is a real-life pharaoh of Ancient Egypt in the 4th dynasty who was incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos via H. P. Lovecraft's fiction (: "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"), which took some liberties with the historical facts.
Khephren (also Chephren) is the Greek form of the pharaoh's name, which is more properly Khafre or Khafra. He is not to be confused with Khephnes, a fictional Egyptian possessed by a Yithian, who by Lovecrat's chronology lived a thousand years later.
Khafre is credited with building the Second Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, whose face is thought to have been carved in his likeness.Khafre at Wikipedia His statue in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is "one of the most important and iconic surviving sculptures from ancient Egypt."American Research Center in Egypt, "Khafre Enthroned".
==In Lovecraft's Fiction==
According to Lovecraft (: "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"), Khephren built the Second Pyramid shortly after 2800 BCE. He restored (rather than constructed) the statue of the Great Sphinx; its face was "probably altered to form a colossal portrait" of Khephren, "that men might look at the colossus without fear." He also built the Temple of the Sphinx, a "yawning gateway temple" in which was found a life-size diorite statue of Khephren that was moved to the Cairo Museum. 
It's said that Khephren still "lives far underground wedded to the ghoul-queen Nitokris and ruling over the mummies that are neither of man nor of beast." 
On one occasion, he posed as a tourist guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, and under that identity kidnapped Harry Houdini to see if the famed magician's magic tricks could escape more ancient traps than those of modern men. 
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