Khafra was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of 4th dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He was the builder of the 2nd-largest pyramid of Giza. The view held by modern Egyptology at large remains that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC for Khafra’ There is not much known about Khafra, except the historical reports of Herodotus, who describes him as a cruel and heretic ruler, who kept the Egyptian temples closed after Khufu had sealed them.