Zahi Hawass Quotes

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• 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…
• It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
• 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.…
• Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
• 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…
• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
• Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from…
• 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…
• 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…
• We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but…
• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
• Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and…
• The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
• Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
• In contrast to the Roman Empire, the Egyptians only used the military to preserve what they had, not threaten it.
• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's…

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