spelling: Muhammad Zakarīya Ghunaim, 1905–1959) was an Egyptian archaeologist, known for his discoveries in and around Saqqara.
Before World War II, Goneim worked at Saqqara on the mortuary temple of Unas.
There was tremendous media attention, and he invited high state officials, journalists, reporters and film teams to the opening.
He also wrote a book, The buried pyramid, with the aid of Leonard Cottrell, in order to publicise the work further.
He was eventually falsely accused of smuggling a large, valuable vessel that Quibell and Lauer had found two years earlier near in the Djoser complex out of the country.