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While Neferefre is given a reign of some twenty years in Manetho's Epitome, this number is a substantial overestimation of his true reign length ; the current academic view is that he enjoyed a very short rule based on the completely unfinished state of his intended pyramid.

A visual examination of the partly damaged data for Neferefre's reign in the Turin King List shows only a single vertical stroke for this king ( each vertical stroke signifies one year ).

This would give him a reign of about 1 or 2 years which agrees well with the archaeological evidence.

The Czech Egyptologist, Miroslav Verner, who has been excavating at Abusir since 1976, states in a 2001 journal article that: