Zahi Abass Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, serving twice. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama, June 2009
Zahi Hawass at a book signing in Mexico City, August 2003.
Speaking on the International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) in Cairo, November 2019
Egyptology is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
Howard Carter opens the coffin of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun
Ibn Wahshiyya's 985 CE incorrect translation of the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph alphabet
The gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, one of the most symbolic artifacts representing ancient Egypt and Egyptology today
Hieroglyphs and depictions transcribed by Ippolito Rosellini in 1832