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. Kamal was of
Turkish origin.[2]
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.
^Abou-Ghazi, Dia', Ahmed Kamal. 1849–1923, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, volume 64 (1981), p. 1
^Reid, Donald Malcolm (2015), Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser,
The American University in Cairo Press, p. 171,
ISBN978-9774166891, Ahmad Kamal, was of Turkish extraction...
Abou-Ghazi, Dia', Ahmed Kamal. 1849–1923, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, volume 64 (1981), pp. 1 – 5, portrait plate.
Dawson, Warren R. ; Uphill, Eric P. ; Bierbrier, M. L., Who was who in Egyptology, London : The Egypt Exploration Society, 1995 (3rd edition), p. 224.