Mamdouh Eldamaty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mamdouh Eldamaty

Egyptian

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1961

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Profession: egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Egypt

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mamdouh Mohamed Gad Eldamaty (Arabic: ????? ???? ??? ????????; born 6 December 1961) is an Egyptian Egyptologist who has served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Antiquities from 2014 until 2016.
He has also worked as Professor of Egyptology at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University in Cairo.
On 15 May 2011, he became Cultural Counselor and Head of the Educational Mission at the Embassy of Egypt in Berlin.
On 16 June 2014 it was announced that he was to be appointed as Minister of Antiquities, a position he held until March 2016 when he was replaced by Khaled El-Anany after a cabinet reshuffle.