Josef W. Wegner

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 Ph.D. degree in Egyptology. 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 in 2013 and discovered that of pharaoh Seneb Kay in 2014. 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. Wegner published an analysis of the Sunshine Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten in a university museum monograph that was abstracted in 2018.

Selected works

• The mortuary complex of Senwosret III : a study of Middle Kingdom state activity and the cult of Osiris at Abydos Ph.D. thesis, (1996) OCLC 857223788
• Searching for Ancient Egypt (author David P. Silverman), contributor (1997) ISBN 1-931707-36-7
• Akhenaten and Tutankhamun : revolution and restoration, coauthor (2006) ISBN 978-1-93-170790-9
• The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos (2007) ISBN 0-9740025-4-2
• Archaism and Innovation, coauthor (2009) ISBN 0-9802065-1-0
• The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia : The Story of the Colossal Sphinx of Ramses the Great in the Penn Museum, coauthor (2015) ISBN 978-1-93-453677-3
• The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten : Penn Museum E16230, (2017) ISBN 978-1-93-453687-2