Hawass

stan · Post by **stan** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:33 pm

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/busine ... enDocument

This story was in the local paper today. You Hawass lovers will get a bang out of it.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:12 pm

YOu have to give Zahi credit for being consistent.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:33 pm

About a decade ago my mother visited Giza (she is still a very active woman), and she found herself in one of the many shops selling trinkets to tourists. She bought my wife a necklace with the Egyptian heiroglyphic of her name on it.

It's cute, and a trinket, but I'm glad ZH never saw her wearing it.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:37 pm

Zahi never met a tourist he didn't love.

shumate95446 · Post by **shumate95446** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:29 pm

I have a lot of respect for Mr. Zahi Hawass. He cares deeply about the ancient history of his homeland, and wants to preserve and protect it.
I wish more people thought like that!!!!!
I hope one day I can meet him and get his autograph, I think he is special.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:03 pm

Well - good luck to you friend.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:06 pm

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_ ... 376C264205

In little over two months, famed Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass hopes to unearth the discovery of his lifetime: the tomb of one of history's greatest women, Cleopatra.

The celebrity archaeologist, who is on a whistle stop lecture tour of South Africa, said that "the discovery would even be bigger than that of King Tut".

From todays news section: This would be pretty neat!

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:21 pm

its baloney
Clepotra was buried with Marc Anthony underneath Alexandria
and Hawass is just drumming up buisness
if he actually knew where she was buried hed have done it years ago

Leona Conner · Post by **Leona Conner** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:23 pm

I, for one, can't wait. I think it would be the archaeological discovery of the decade. I would say century, but after reading the latest issue of Arcaeology Magazine, the next 50 years are gonna be pretty busy.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:30 pm

I think so too Leona. I just hope I can live to be 106.

Well, I may miss some of it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:40 pm

we all know who hawass is but how did he get to his position in Egypt? what makes him a better expert over everybody else who works in egyptology?

i have seen him in several documenteries on the discovery channel and is it due to the fact that he is a good public relations person?

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:46 pm

is it due to the fgact that he is a good public relations person?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/counc ... awass.html
Hawass studied archaeology in both Egypt and the United States and received a Fulbright scholarship in 1980. In 1987 he earned his Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1988 he has taught Egyptian archaeology, history, and culture, most recently at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo, and the University of California at Los Angeles.

Hawass has been a consultant for documentaries, films, television specials, and magazine stories and has written extensively on Middle Eastern and Egyptian archaeology.

He is the author of several books on ancient Egypt, including Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt and The Secrets of the Sphinx. His best-selling book, Valley of the Golden Mummies, was published in five languages. One of Egypt's most visible and effective spokesmen, he holds numerous committee appointments and lectures throughout the world.

In 2000 Hawass received the Distinguished Scholar award from the Association of Egyptian American Scholars and was one of 30 international figures to receive the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:46 pm

http://guardians.net/hawass/background.htm

His official site.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:25 am

How many of you remember Planet of the Apes? Not the recent knock off - the Charlton Heston original?

Zahi reminds me a lot of Dr Zaius.

Zaius was the Minister of Science....but he was also Defender of the Faith.
In the movie he claimed there was no contradiction between the two posts but, of course, the latter caused him to undercut the former on a continual basis.

Hawass has done some magnificent work on Egyptian antiquities and he is enough of a celebrity to be able to raise money to properly store and display them in many cases, which, in a poverty stricken 3'd world nation is a solid record of accomplishment. Or, maybe he just blackmails the government into giving him what he wants! But he is also wedded to a vision of the past, I saw him interviewed where he got absolutely furious at the suggestion that the Sphinx was not built by Khafre in the 4th Dynasty. "The sphinx is the soul of Egypt," he literally bellowed into the microphone.

Well....even if it were carved by little green men from Mars it would still be located in Egypt. It could still be the 'soul' of Egypt. But the dogmatic insistence that the sphinx was a product of the 4th Dynasty seems out of place. Is Khafre the 'soul' of Egypt, too?

That's the kind of thing about him that pisses me off. It is not necessary. In fact, tourism would probably increase if it were carved by Martians!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:01 am

interesting. i have seen him a lot but usually in little snipets throughout the documentaries but never knew what qualifications he had.

my impression of him is that he knows what he is talking about but the dark side i knew nothing about.

i think national pride plays a large part in his stanceon the sphynx and other egyptian antiquities, though i can agree with minimalist that the older dating of the that object would not hurt egyptian heritage or identity.

i think that archaeology has suffered a lot over the past 100 years and i wonder if we can actually correct any errors or mis-information.