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The statue of King Khafre which can be seen in the Spurlock Museum is an example of a sculpture. This art is an example of Egyptian art from the old kingdom which was made during the fourth dynasty. The reasoning behind creating this sculpture is due to the religious practices of the Egyptian people. Egyptian’s did not believe that preserving the body was enough. But it is not only these oldest relics of human architecture which tell of the role played by age-old beliefs in the story of art. The Egyptians held the belief that the preservation of the body was not enough. If the likeness of the king was also preserved, it was doubly sure that he would continue to exist forever. So they ordered sculptors to chisel the king’s head out of hard, imperishable granite, and put it in the tomb where no one saw it, there to work its spell and to help his Soul to keep alive in and through the image. One Egyptian word for sculptor was actually ‘He-who-keeps-alive’ (Egyptian1). The basic reason why King Khafre wanted this statue of him created was to ensure that his spirit would go on forever, and to make sure that he would be remembered as a powerful ruler and his name would go down in history. “This particular ka statu