General Director of Luxor’s Antiquities
Co-director of the CFEETK
Egyptologist and archaeologist (PhD)
Ministry of Ministry and Antiquities (MoTA, SCA)
دكتور عبد الغفار وجدي
مدير عام اثار الاقصر
مدير مشارك للمركز المصري الفرنسي بالكرنك
عالم المصريات
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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