Expedition Magazine Volume 65 No. 3, Winter 2024, is a special issue on the Penn Museum’s research in Abydos and South Egypt, assembled by guest editor Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Curator, Egyptian Section. Dating back to the earliest days of Egypt (3000–2800 BCE), Abydos has become known as the burial place of the first pharaohs. The issue is dedicated to the legacy of David O’Connor, who came to the Penn Museum when he was a 26-year-old Australian Ph.D. candidate. O'Connor became the director of the Penn–Yale–New York University Expedition to Abydos, and for the next three decades, he reshaped the Museum’s Egyptian Section and profoundly impacted the field of Egyptology.
