Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist)

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Ahmed Kamāl (

Egyptologist and pioneer in his own country. Kamal was of Turkish origin.[2]

Research

ancient Heliopolis
.

He trained under the German

Heinrich Brugsch
.

He was a curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a staff member of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. He was jointly responsible for the Egyptian collections’ classification and significantly involved in the museum's removal from both Boulaq to Giza and Giza to the Tahrir Square at Cairo's city center.

He took part in several excavations at

Nile Valley. In Dara, he discovered the only known attestation of pharaoh Khui
.

Important publications

References

  1. ^ Abou-Ghazi, Dia', Ahmed Kamal. 1849–1923, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, volume 64 (1981), p. 1
  2. , Ahmad Kamal, was of Turkish extraction...