People often ask me, ‘well, it’s not really as exciting as Indiana Jones, now is it?’
I reply, ‘to an archaeologist, yes, it certainly is!’

— Zahi Hawass

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Date: 
September 30, 1987 (All day)

Hawass obtained his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow. His dissertation was titled "The Funerary Establishments of Khufu, Khafra and Menkaura during the Old Kingdom."

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