Current Research in Egyptology: Kamal and Erman

Ahmed Kamal and Adolf Erman are two famous scholars in Egyptology who both lived and died in the same period – the mid-19th to early 20th century. Both faced similar circumstances in their personal lives and careers, and so a comparison of the two men is useful in order to shed light on the history of Egyptology. Ahmed Kamal Pacha (1852-1923). Image: © Bibliotheca Alexandrina Adolf Erman (1854-1937), photographed in 1926. Image: © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford Origin, name, family Ahmed Kamal, of Cretan origin, was born in Cairo in 1852, where he was raised and educated. Erman was born in 1854 in Berlin, but his family was of Swiss origin, having moved to Berlin i