Kamal el-Mallakh ( ar, كمال الملاخ) was a famous

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ian archaeologist who was among the

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inspectors who discovered the ''King Khufu Solar ship'' in 1954.

Life

El Mallakh was born to a Coptic Christian Orthodox family from

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on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987. He graduated from the ''School of Fine Arts'' in 1943 with a degree in

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and then received a master's degree in

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from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

. In 1954 El Mallakh discovered two pits just south of the

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on Cairo's western outskirts, he found

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' 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

' soul on a perpetual circle through the heavens, one for day time one for night. Other

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denied the pit but it was an American

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society who discovered it which indeed held a boat. Kamal worked in the

area for 14 years where he discovered

Khufu ship The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500 BC, during the Fourth Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Like other buried A ...

. In his later life he became one of the founders of the

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while working as a journalist for ''

Al-Ahram ''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...

'' newspaper.

Books

*''The Gold of Tutankhamen,'' Kamal El-Mallakh & Arnold Brackman (1978). *''Treasures of the Nile: art of the temples and tombs of Egypt'' (1980). *''Al-Ustadh'' (1981). *''al-Akawan Sayf wa-Adham Wanli'' (1984). * ''Gamal Es-Seguini'' (1985). ASIN B000KW144Y *''Cairo: Giza-Sakkarh-Memphis'' (1987).

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Kamal El-Mallakh life by Zahi Hawas
*An article about Cairo film festival and Kamal El-Mallakh by Lobna abdel Azi

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mallakh, Kamal 1918 births 1987 deaths Egyptian Egyptologists Egyptian archaeologists 20th-century Egyptian writers Coptic Orthodox Christians from Egypt Egyptian newspaper journalists 20th-century archaeologists

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