Name Josef Wegner | Parents Gary A. Wegner | |
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Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist, archaeologist and Associate Professor in Egyptology at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his PhD degree in Egyptology. He is noted for his continued research at Abydos, where he excavated the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep IV in 2013 and discovered that of pharaoh Seneb Kay in 2014. He has since then excavated an entire royal necropolis dating to the Second Intermediate Period, possibly belonging to kings of the Theban 16th Dynasty or witnessing the existence of the Abydos Dynasty.
He is the son of astrophysicist Gary Wegner.
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