Wafaa Saddik

Wafaa El Saddik (also El-Saddik, Arabic: ; born 1950) She was the museum's first female director. In her book Protecting Pharaoh's Treasures, El Saddik said that she had predicted the Egyptian revolution of 2011, saying that she had believed it would be similar to the Tunisian Revolution. After the revolution, El Saddik expressed concern over the preservation of Egyptian historical artefacts.

Book published in her honour In 2025, Reichert Media published a book in her honour titled "Egypt's Greatest Treasure. Studies in Egyptology, Museology and Archaeology in Honour of Wafaa T. El-Saddik" edited by Konstantin C. Lakomy, Sabah Abdel Razik Saddik and Rafed El-Sayed (Wiesbaden, 2025), with 556 pages, 179 illustrations b/w, 687 illustrations color, hardback, Reichert Verlag (Publishing). It has a Preface in German and English on her, as well as a Title of Contents and a Sample PDF Article on Senusert III.