Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist)

Ahmed Kamāl (Arabic: أحمد كمال, July 29, 1849[1] – August 5, 1923, also known as Ahmed Kamal Bey (Pasha)) was Egypt’s first Egyptologist and pioneer in his own country.

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 Dayr al-Barsha, Gabal at-Tayr, Tihna el-Gebel, Gamhud, Atfih, Mayr, El-Sheikh Sa'id, Asyut, Dara, Amarna as well as in the Nile Valley.

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