page_title: Autobiography of Weni
hierarchical_section_title: Autobiography of Weni
caption_attribution_description: English: Le Musée égyptien: recueil de monuments et de notices sur les fouilles d'Egypte, vol. I, Le Caire, 1890-1900, pls. XXVII-XVIII
context_page_description: The Autobiography of Weni is a tomb inscription from ancient Egypt, which is significant to Egyptology studies. Weni the Elder, or Uni, was a court official of the 6th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
  The Tomb of Weni was lost as a result of Auguste Mariette's 1880 description of Weni's tomb being unclear. It was rediscovered in 1999 by an American archaeologist team led by Dr. Janet Richards. More recent works in the necropolis of Pepi I in Saqqara uncovered a second tomb for Weni with a near identical copy of his biography.
context_section_description: The Autobiography of Weni is a tomb inscription from ancient Egypt, which is significant to Egyptology studies. Weni the Elder, or Uni, was a court official of the 6th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
  The Tomb of Weni was lost as a result of Auguste Mariette's 1880 description of Weni's tomb being unclear ("[on] the high hill which gives the middle cemetery its name"). It was rediscovered in 1999 by an American archaeologist team led by Dr. Janet Richards. More recent works in the necropolis of Pepi I in Saqqara uncovered a second tomb for Weni with a near identical copy of his biography.
caption: Autobiography of Weni, now at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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