General Director of Luxor’s Antiquities
Co-director of the CFEETK
Egyptologist and archaeologist (PhD)
Ministry of Ministry and Antiquities (MoTA, SCA)
Born in 1974, at Sohag (Egypt)
Contacts: abdelghafar.wagdy@yahoo.com
Links: Linkedin / Academia
Education
2013-2018 — PhD, Egyptology- Georg Steindorff- Institute, Leipzig University, Germany
2011 — M. Sc. in Ancient History Department, Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University
2006 — Diploma in Ancient History, Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University
2002 — Diploma in Tourist Guidance, Faculty of Hotel & Tourism, Helwan University
1996 — BA in Egyptology, Egyptology Department, Sohag University
Recent Work Experience
2024-2025-… — Director General of Luxor’s Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt & Co-director of CFEETK
2023 — Senior Inspector, Giza Pyramids Antiquities Office, MoTA
2022 — Researcher in Leipzig University, Germany
2020 — Senior Inspector, Giza Pyramids, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
2019 — Archeologist, Oliver Specht # Ausgrabungen Specht, Germany
2018 — Archeologist, BfAD Heyse GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
2017 — “Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft” in Leipzig University, Germany
2011-2017 — Senior Inspector, Giza Pyramids, Ministry of Antiquities
Fellowships and Grants
2017 — EES, Egypt Exploration Society grant 2017-2018
2012 — DAAD, German Egyptian Research Long-term Scholarship (GERLS) Programme 2014, PhD, Egyptology-Georg Steindorff-Institute, Leipzig University, Germany
Publications
Book
2020 — Die saitische Nekropole in Heliopolis, Cairo 2020, SCA Publications, Egypt
2012 — (Terenuthis) Kom Abou Billou area, Nr. 64, SCA Publications, Egypt
Papers
2024
— „Heliopolis, Funde aus der Nekropole von Ard Neqabet El-Muhamin (1987–88)“, ZÄS 2024, 151/1, pp. 139-158.
— „Amulette aus Rettungsgrabungen von Hosh–᾽Aleash in cAin Shams Ost, Heliopolis, 1986“, JHIE 6, pp. 43-66.
2023
— „Heliopolis. Die Rettungsgrabung in der Al Mashrooa Straße von Terat El-Jabel, 1998“, Egitto e Vicino Oriente 46, 2023, pp. 95-129.
2022
— „Heliopolis, Unveröffentlichte Funde aus den Ausgrabungen von Str. Sotouhi (2006)“, GM 267, 2022, pp. 66-72.
— „Funde aus der Nekropole von Ard Neqabet El-Muhamin (1987–88), Heliopolis“, GM 266, 1, 2022, pp. 143-156.
2021
— „Heliopolis, Unvollendete Kanopengefäße aus der Ausgrabung von Ard Neqabet El-Muhamin, (1987-88)“, BAEDE 2021, pp. 97-124.
— „Uschebtis aus Heliopolis (Ausgrabung von Hosh-Aleash حوش عليش, 1986)“, EVO XLIV, 2021, pp. 93-112.
— „Statuenbasis aus Heliopolis (Ausgrabung von Arab el-Hisn, Jugendzentrum, 2005)“, GM 263, 2021, pp. 165-170.
2020
— „The Northern Gate of Amenhotep III’s Mortuary Temple at Thebes, Report of the Excavations conducted by the SCA, Season 2010–2011”, ASAE 88, 2020, pp. 273-290.
— „Das geplünderte Grab des Sechet”, SAK 49, 2020, pp. 281-286.
— „Drei Kanopengefäße und ein Kanopen-Deckel aus Heliopolis“, GM 261, 2020, pp. 47-52
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