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

The Show-Biz Pharaoh of Egypt - The New York Times Profiles Zahi Hawass
Date: 
June 13, 2005

The King Tut exhibition set to open on June 16 in Los Angeles, bringing the boy king's treasures to the United States for the first time in a quarter-century, is in just about every sense a reflection of Zahi Hawass, the man who made the show possible.

 

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Zahi Hawass and Friends at Naguib Mahfouz Cafe
Sketching a Coffin
On Top of the Great Sphinx
Theban Tomb 1
Dr. Rainer Stadelmann in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Burial Goods of Na-Sa
Talatat Discovered by the Italian Mission at Sheikh 'Ibada
A Coffin from the Newly Discovered Necropolis in Illahun