Josef William Wegner | |
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| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania |
Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist, archaeologist[1] and Professor[2] in Egyptology at the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania,[3] where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Egyptology in 1996. He specializes in Egyptian Middle Kingdom archaeology (circa 2050-1650BCE).[4] His father is the astrophysicist, Gary A. Wegner.
He is noted for his continued research at Abydos, where he excavated the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep IV[5] in 2013 and discovered that of Pharaoh Seneb Kay in 2014.[6][7] Later, he excavated an entire royal necropolis dating to the Second Intermediate Period, possibly belonging to kings of the Theban sixteenth dynasty or witnessing the existence of the Abydos dynasty.[8] Wegner published an analysis of the Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten in a university museum monograph that was abstracted in 2018.[9] His research has been funded by "the American Research Center in Egypt, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, [and the] American Philosophical Society."[10]
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- ^ "Josef W. Wegner | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations". nelc.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ "Student Dies in Hiking Accident". Harvard Crimson. October 23, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ^ "Josef W. Wegner | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations". nelc.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ^ Wegner, J.; Cahail, K. (2015). "Royal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos: Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I?". JARCE. 15.
- ^ Discovery of the tomb and nomen of the pharaoh on the Luxor Times.
- ^ "Mystery pharaoh and his tomb identified in Egypt". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-06-24.
- ^ Wegner, Josef W. (2015). "A royal necropolis at south Abydos: New Light on Egypt's Second Intermediate Period". Near Eastern Archaeology. 78 (2): 69–70. doi:10.5615/neareastarch.78.2.0068. S2CID 163519900.
- ^ The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten.
- ^ "Josef W. Wegner | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations". nelc.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-10.