Word: kamal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Kamal el Malakh finished his peering through the hole in the limestone block, he behaved in the most approved Egyptological manner. He had the hole sealed up to protect the relics inside from air and dust. He posted armed guards to exclude unauthorized antiquarians. Then he went into a huddle with his most learned colleagues. This week he reopened the hole for an hour-and-a-half, gave eight noted Egyptologists and scholars a quick look at the treasure below by the light of an electric bulb on the end of a stick...
...road for the convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...week the seesaw teetered crazily. It began with Naguib on top. Bounding happily out of a meeting of the R.C.C., he told the waiting mob: "There is good news for you." Grimly, R.C.C. Secretary Major Kamal Hussein announced the details: on July 24 the two-year-old revolution would end. A parliament elected by the old parties would take over...