What is important to me is that I have the great good fortune to spend my days doing something I love, and being given the opportunity to make a difference in the world.

— Zahi Hawass

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General Director of Antiquities for the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, and Bahariya
Date: 
September 30, 1987 - December 31, 1997

For ten years, Dr. Hawass served as the General Director of Antiquities for the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, and Bahariya Oasis. During this period, he made some of his greatest discoveries, including the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders and the Valley of the Golden Mummies.

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Dr. Hawass examining a mummy in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis
Talatat Discovered by the Italian Mission at Sheikh 'Ibada
Overview of Taposiris Magna
Zahi Hawass and Kids Onstage in Atlanta
Dr. Rainer Stadelmann in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Workers looking into a shaft in the courtyard of the tomb of Amun-em-Opet
Cutting the Ribbon for the New Exhibition "120 Years of Spanish Archaeology in Egypt"
Seti I Tunnel

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