Zahi Hawass famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Egypt #Pages #Papyrus
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Mean #Crocodiles #Inscriptions
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Civilization #Culture #Pieces
Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Jobs #Love You #Passion
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Past #Thinking #Ideas
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Pyramids #People #Waiting
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Civilization #Black #Elements
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god,
-- Zahi Hawass

#Osiris #Pyramids #Feet
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Heart
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Pyramids #Khufu #Next
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Running #Media #Umpires

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