Quotes by Zahi Hawass - Page 1

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Doors
Reveal
Secrets
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Sphinx
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Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Egypt
Pages
Papyrus
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Heart
Tombs
Open
Tomb
Tremble
Undiscovered
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Jobs
Giving
Love You
Passion
Love Passion Your
To Love
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Evidence
Ideas
Open Mind
Past
Thinking
Archaeological
Base
Scientists
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Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Black
Civilization
Elements
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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 / Archaeologist
Khufu
Next
Pyramids
Tombs
Announce
Intact
Opened
Pyramid
Tomb
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Covered
Fifty
Gold
Mummy
Explained
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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 / Archaeologist
Civilization
Culture
Pieces
Interpreted
Material
Object
Piece
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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 / Archaeologist
Archaeology
People
Pyramids
Waiting
Important People
Pyramid
Reveal
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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 / Archaeologist
Running
Damn
Egypt
Interviews
Media
Good I Am Me
Accuse
Cent
Good Me I Am
Per
Reject
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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 / Archaeologist
Features
Granite
Restoration
Statue
Tons
Weighs
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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 / Archaeologist
Foreigners
Majority
Preservation
Discoveries
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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 / Archaeologist
Guardian
Pyramids
Something New
Sphinx
World New Find
Announce
Belong
Find
Treasures
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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 / Archaeologist
Crocodiles
Found
Hippopotamus
Mean
Protected
Tombs
Touch
Crocodile
Eaten
Inscription
Tomb
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I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.
Zahi Hawass / Archaeologist
Feet
Osiris
Pyramids
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