Zahi Hawass quotes
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“Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.”
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“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 HawassSource : "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.
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“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.”
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“Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.”
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“As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.”
-- Zahi HawassSource : Zahi Hawass (2015). “Magic of the Pyramids: My adventures in Archeology”, p.28, Leonardo Paolo Lovari
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“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.”
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“Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.”
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“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,”
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“It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.”
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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 opened yet.”
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“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
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