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In 1973-4 . . . the first in a series of serious pioneering projects was launched, using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech remote sensing equipment to locate "anomalies" under the bedrock beneath the Sphinx. These projects were channeled through well-established academic institutions - the Ain Shams University in Cairo and the prestigious Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the USA.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
reply to post by nyeff
he is the only one that oversees all antiques and is the only one with access to them. oh and he has to be there whenever something is discovered before they open in.
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by twodee
In the Giza area that is his job. He's also a bit of an egotiscal dude, so he tends to get a bit of media coverage.
Trivia question, who was his predecessor? Don't know? He WASN'T a media hound and so most people have never heard of him yet he operated in the same way as Hawass.
Remember that Egypt was open for looting for thousands of years. It was the French and British who slowly brought it under control and past that control to the Egyptians. Uncontrolled looting still continues in the countryside at an alarming rate.
Originally posted by twodee
Hawass has been there for ages, I can remember watching Egyptian documentaries when I was just a kid and he was there, with his Indian Jones style hat
Was he elected or is it a private position?
Another time he began to remember a lot after seeing the illustrations in a second book by Muldashev, "In Search of the City of Gods." About burial chambers and the pyramids. He said that they would find knowledge not under the pyramid of Cheops but under a different one. But they have not found it yet. "Life will change when they open the Sphinx," he said, and added that the Sphinx will open somewhere behind the ear, but he can't remember exactly where. He talks engagingly, when the inspiration comes, about the Mayan civilization, feeling that people do not know very much about that fascinating people.