Ahmed Kamāl was Egypt

Egypt

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’s first Egyptologist and pioneer in his own country.

Research

He trained under the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch.

He was a curator at the Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms....

 in Cairo

Cairo

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 and a staff member of the Supreme Council of Antiquities

Supreme Council of Antiquities

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. He was jointly responsible for the Egyptian collections’ classification and significantly involved in the museum’s removal from both Boulaq

Boulaq

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 to Giza and Giza to the Tahrir Square at Cairo’s city center.

He took part in several excavations at Dayr al-Barsha, Gabal at-Tayr, Tihna el-Gebel, Gamhud, Atfih

Atfih

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, Mayr

Mayr

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, Shaykh Sa'id, Asyut

Asyut

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 and in the Nile Valley.

Important publications

• Kamal, Ahmed, Stèles ptolémaiques et romaines, two volumes, Le Caire, 1904–1905, (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire).
• Kamal, Ahmed, Tables d'offrandes, two volumes, Le Caire, 1906, 1909, (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire).