Kamal el-Mallakh was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1950.

Life

He was born to a Copt

Copt

The Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....

ic family from Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan north to the area between El-Ayait and Zawyet Dahshur . The northern section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Sohag is sometimes known as Middle Egypt...

 on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987.

He graduated form the School of Fine Arts in 1943 and then received a master's degree in Egyptology

Egyptology

Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...

 from Cairo University

Cairo University

Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...

.

He worked in the Giza area for 14 years were he discovered the Khufu ship: see Khufu ship#History.

He was one of the founders of the Cairo International Film Festival

Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world...

 while working as a journalist for Al-Ahram

Al-Ahram

Al-Ahram , founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya . It is majority owned by the Egyptian government....

newspaper.

Books

• The Gold of Tutankhamen, Kamal El-Mallakh & Arnold Brackman (1978). ISBN 0-88225-264-X
• Treasures of the Nile: art of the temples and tombs of Egypt (1980). ISBN 0-88225-293-3
• Al-Ustadh (1981). ISBN 977-734-520-8
• al-Akawan Sayf wa-Adham Wanli (1984). ISBN 977-01-0271-7
• Gamal Es-Seguini (1985). ASIN B000KW144Y
• Cairo: Giza-Sakkarh-Memphis (1987). ISBN 88-7011-630-1

External links

• Kamal El-Mallakh life by Zahi Hawas
• An article about Cairo film festival and Kamal El-Mallakh by Lobna abdel Aziz http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/555/pe2.htm