Zahi Hawass Quotes

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

Good, Nothing, After

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass

Two, After, Cannot

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
Zahi Hawass

Important, Between, Found

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
Zahi Hawass

Love, Job, Passion

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
Zahi Hawass

Secrets, Behind, Doors

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
Zahi Hawass

Heart, Makes, Open

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass

Mind, Past, Keep

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 Hawass

Saying, Person, Mean

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.
Zahi Hawass

Great, Next, Found

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.
Zahi Hawass

Science, Waiting, Important

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.
Zahi Hawass

Single, Lost, Culture

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Zahi Hawass

After, Sphinx, Looked

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
Zahi Hawass

Care, Maybe, Majority

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Zahi Hawass

Find, Belong, Treasures

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Scientist

Born: May 27, 1947

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