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AMY LOU says: July 21, 2010 at 8:07 PM July 21, 2010….Hawass is such a jerk. His new show on the History Channel is fake and overly melodramatic. He treats people horribly, and he presumes he is important. They should all just walk off the site. And what’s with the “I will punish you!” all the time???….does he actually think he is a pharaoh? I have lost all respect for him since this show started.
Zahi Hawass: Egypt’s Avenger of the Pharaohs
originally posted by: BernnieJGato
one woman pee'd her pants in the one of the pyramids and all over the ground / floor. he got all pissy about it ( pun indented) and kept telling her she must be punished..
I haven't seen this guy on TV in a while. I thought he was taken off. It was all very convenient in this shows. No other word for it.
For more than a decade Zahi Hawass was, arguably, the Osiris of antiquities. A regal combination of showman and scholar, he ruled a netherworld of tombs and temples, investigating age-old mysteries—the burial place of Antony and Cleopatra, the cause of death of Tutankhamun—for rapt television audiences. Hawass’ megalomania was legendary: In “Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass,” a reality television series on the History Channel, the archaeologist led his trainees on Howard Carter-type adventures, an exercise in self-aggrandizement so unabashed that it prompted a New York Times critic to smirk: “One hopes...Dr. Hawass will unearth some ancient Egyptian chill pills and swallow a generous helping.”
It all ended with the revolution. Hawass was vilified when protests against President Mubarak erupted in Tahrir Square in January 2011. Protesters called him “the Mubarak of Antiquities” and accused him of corruption. Underlings in the antiquities department and jobless and frustrated archaeology graduates besieged his office, demanding his ouster. “And take your hat,” they shouted. In April 2011 he was sentenced to a year in jail, stemming from an alleged case of rigged contract bidding at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (The verdict was later overturned.) In July 2011, after serving two successive post-Mubarak governments, Hawass finally was obliged to give up his job. According to one Egyptian blogger, Hawass was “escorted out the back door of the ministry into a cab, showered with insults and angry chants from young archaeologists,” an event captured on video and watched by thousands of Egyptians.
originally posted by: stonerwilliam
a reply to: nerbot
..... luckily Howard Carter got sacked from the dig as they found the golden death mask of Tutankamun hidden in a crate of whisky ready to be spirited away !! .
originally posted by: stu119
Hawass knows that the pyramids were built before the supposed dates that are bandied about in this era and a good chance they were built by others prior to the Egyptians. He's desperately trying to hide all that and keep the current narrative.
originally posted by: ElitePlebeian2
Unbelievably frustrating to know this man most likely sits on several findings that would shatter some crucial beliefs about the history of that area and maybe even the world.. I wonder if there is some kind of link to Atlantis and its people.
originally posted by: nerbot
originally posted by: stonerwilliam
a reply to: nerbot
..... luckily Howard Carter got sacked from the dig as they found the golden death mask of Tutankamun hidden in a crate of whisky ready to be spirited away !! .
Glad they stopped him. I remember queuing as a kid for hours to see the exhibition at the British Meuseum. Tut's mask was enigmatic to say the least and Mum had to drag me away. I still have the guidebook kept for posterity.