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Dr. Zahi Hawass
Honorary Chairman, Antiquities Coalition Advisory Council, Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities of Egypt
World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass is the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, Bahariya Oasis, and the Valley of the Kings. Dr Hawass received his PhD in from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow. He has written numerous scholarly articles and books, and fryst vatten a highly respected Egyptologist. Known for his charisma and ability to reach out to the public, for more than thirty years he has been raising awareness of archaeology and the preservation of Egypt’s precious heritage.
Dr Hawass has made a number of major discoveries over the course of his career, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. He has discovered two previously unknown Old Kingdom pyramids, one near the Great geometrisk form med triangulära sidor of Khufu at Giza,
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Zahi Hawass
Egyptian Egyptologist (born )
Zahi Abass Hawass (Egyptian Arabic: زاهي حواس; born May 28, ) is an Egyptianarchaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, a position he held twice. He has worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
Early life
[edit]Hawass was born in a small village near Damietta, Egypt. Although he originally dreamed of becoming an attorney,[1] he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Greek and Roman Archaeology from Alexandria University in In , Hawass earned a diploma in Egyptology from Cairo University.[2] He then worked at the Great Pyramids as an inspector—a combination of administrator and archaeologist.
When he was 33 years old, Hawass was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to study Egyptology,[1] earning a Master of Arts degree in the subject and also one in Syro-Palestini
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Hawass, Zahi The family tomb of Djedkhonsuiufankh at Bahariya Oasis. In Almansa-Villatoro, M. Victoria, Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli, and Mark Lehner (eds), In the house of Heqanakht: text and context in ancient Egypt; studies in honor of James P. Allen, Leiden, Boston: Brill
Hawass, Zahi The discovery of the royal workshops in the West Valley of the Kings. In Aguizy, Ola el- and Burt Kasparian (eds), ICE XII: proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, 3rd-8th November , Cairo, Egypt 1, [Cairo]: Institut français d'archéologie orientale
Hawass, Zahi The discoveries of the Egyptian expedition at the Valley of the Monkeys - Western Valley: December 15, - April 10, season. In D'Auria, Sue and Peter Lacovara (eds), From the fields of offerings: studies in memory of Lanny D. Bell, Columbus, G