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A limestone statue of a recumbent lion with a human head, carved from the bedrock of the Giza plateau, about 13 km south-west of central Cairo, most likely under King Khafre around 2550 BC. It is 73 m long and 20 m high, faces east and lies beside Khafre's valley temple.
The Giza plateau, on the edge of the Western Desert about 13 km south-west of central Cairo, holds the pyramids of the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, built in the Fourth Dynasty around 2600–2500 BC. Around them lie smaller queens' pyramids, temples, causeways and the tombs of officials.
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