[3] Khafre is thought by some to be the son of Queen Meritites I due to an inscription where he is said to honor her memory.

[Breasted; Ancient Records] Others argue that the inscription just suggests that this queen died during the reign of Khafre.

The will is dated anonymously to the Year of the 12th Count and is assumed to belong to Khafre since Nekure was his son.

[6] This would imply a reign of 24–25 years for this king if the cattle count was biannual during the Fourth Dynasty.

Blocks have been found showing the partial remains of an inscription with the Horus name of Khafre (Weser-ib).

From the mortuary temple come fragments of maceheads inscribed with Khafre's name as well as some stone vessels.

This is supported by the proximity of the sphinx to Khafre's pyramid temple complex, and a certain resemblance (despite damage) to the facial structure seen in his statues.

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have been carved out as a guardian of Khafre's pyramid, and as a symbol of royal power.

[9][10][11][12] Contrary to modern Egyptologists and archaeological findings, Greek historians Diodorus and Herodotus, writing more than 2,000 years after King Khafre, depicted him as a tyrant who had followed his father Khêops on the throne.

Almost all of them come from Giza, partly from the official necropolis there, but mainly from the area around the temple complexes of the Khafre pyramid.

In a large hall of the valley temple, 23 depressions have been made in the ground, in which originally life-size statues stood.