Occupation archaeologist Education Cairo University Name Kamal el-Mallakh | Ethnicity Copt Nationality Egyptian | |
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Born October 26, 1918
Egypt ( 1918-10-26 ) Died October 1987, Cairo, Egypt Books The gold of Tutankhamen, Treasures of the Nile Similar People Etienne Drioton, Peter Tompkins, Hetepheres I, Charles Piazzi Smyth, David Derham | ||
Kamal el-Mallakh (Arabic: كمال الملاخ) was a famous Coptic-Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1954.
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He was born to a Coptic family from Upper Egypt on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987.
He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1943 with a degree in Architecture and then received a master's degree in Egyptology from Cairo University. In 1954 El Mallakh discovered two pits just south of the Great Pyramids of Giza on Cairo's western outskirts, he found Cheops first boat, the oldest wooden relic of Ancient Egypt Kingdom.
El Mallakh maintained that a nearby pit contained another boat. His theory was that the two boats were to ferry Cheops soul on a perpetual circle through the heavens, one for day time one for night. Other Archeologists denied the pit but it was an American National Geographic society who discovered it which indeed held a boat.
Kamel worked in the Giza area for 14 years where he discovered the Khufu ship.
In his later life he became one of the founders of the Cairo International Film Festival while working as a journalist for Al-Ahram newspaper.