Raymond Weill (28 January 1874 – 13 July 1950), whose full name was Raymond Charles Isaac Weill, was a French archaeologist specialized in Egyptology.
Born on 28 January 1874 in Elbeuf, 28 January 1874 in Elbeuf began his career in the military before starting a career with Gaston Maspero at the École pratique des hautes études at the age of 30, where he taught from 1928 to 1945.
From 1904 to 1905 he was in an expedition in the Sinai with Flinders Petrie, which influenced the United States' future President Herbert Hoover's later prospecting endeavours for turquoise in the sinai peninsula for the British mining company Bewick, Moreing & Company.
He specialized in the history of Ancient Egypt, specifically the Second Intermediate Period. He published several works on the end of the 12th dynasty and the Hyksos. Towards the end of his life, he came to the conviction that Hyksos had reigned as local kings in the Nile Delta during the late 12th Dynasty.
Weill was one of the first archaeologists to undertake excavations in what was then known as Mount Ophel, and later known as Wadi Hilweh, Jerusalem. Amateur archaeologist Montagu Parker claimed the location was the "ancient City of David" in 1911. Weill was the first professional archaeologist to claim the site was the "City of David" and identify it as the place where David is said to have set up his capital. He died on 13 July 1950 in Paris.
