The Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, also written Dynasty IV, ruled from about 2613 to about 2498 BC and is regarded as a golden age of the Old Kingdom. It was a time of peace and prosperity with officially documented foreign trade, and it marks the height of pyramid building. Sneferu, its first pharaoh, experimented with the shift from mastaba tombs to smooth-sided pyramids, and his successors Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure built the pyramids of the Giza Plateau. Shepseskaf broke the chain by building a mastaba instead. The ancient king lists agree on most of the order of rulers, though Manetho gives a different sequence.
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was the first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty
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Dynasty IV lasted from c. 2613 to c. 2498 BC
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was the first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty
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