Claude Traunecker (born 1943 in Mulhouse) is a French Egyptologist, professor at the University of Strasbourg and researcher at the CNRS.
[1][2] From 1968 to 1984, Traunecker worked in Franco-Egyptian Center for the Study of Temples Karnak and Luxor.
In 1996, he was elected chair of Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg, a position he held until 2007.
[citation needed] During the excavation campaign of 2004–2005, he explored the many rooms of the Theban tomb, TT33.
He is the author of The Gods of Egypt, and in 1984 he published Karnak: résurrection d'un site with Jean-Claude Golvin.