Edward Frank Wente (born 1930) is an American professor emeritusofEgyptology and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959 and lectured there from 1963 to 1996.[1] He is also a longstanding member of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.[1][2] Wente also republished and retranslated the volumnious "Late Ramesside Letters" correspondence from Deir el-Medina in 1967.[3] One of his major works is Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990), published by the Scholarly Press.[2]
In 1999, the Oriental Institute published a collection of essays by Egyptologists in honor of Edward Wente "Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente".[4] His wife, Dr. Leila Ibrahim Wente (1926 -2018), was also an Egyptologist.
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