Ahmed Kamal

✶July 29, 1851

†August 5, 1923

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Ahmed Kamāl was a prominent Egyptian Egyptologist and historian, widely regarded as the first native Egyptian Egyptologist. Born in 1849 and passing in 1923, he was among the earliest Egyptians to professionally study and document ancient Egypt in the modern times at a time when the field was dominated by European scholars.

Egyptian egyptologist (1851–1923)

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