In any case, poor Menkaure is left last, ostracized owing to his having the smallest pyramid of the three. Or Cheops, Chefren, and Micerinus, in the common Greek spelling. They belong to three kings, whose names are always repeated in a specific order: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. We have all heard of the Pyramids of Giza.
The Pyramid of Menkaure The 9 Pyramids of Gizeh from the South, drawing by Tristram Ellis, 1883, via
