Zahi Hawass Quotes (24 Quotes)

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.

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

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

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.

I know that you have been aware of this for some time now, and am both surprised and disappointed that you did not contact me right away to set this matter straight.

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

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.

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

A new hall for mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in a fortnight's time.

When I make a new discovery, every journalist in every newspaper wants to know, ... These are all important. To know of this greatest civilization - the greatest people, both rich and poor - it is the best thing we could know.

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.

I hope that we will do this work and in a few months from now we will really know what's behind them,

For the first time, we will make these dead mummies come alive,

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

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.

This is a very interesting exhibit. It will educate people about death and the afterlife, and how Egyptians used the Book of the Dead and other rituals. It's from the New Kingdom, our golden age. And by coming to Dayton, it is helping to bring the money we need in Egypt. Our project does not have any government money it's all from tourists and sending out these exhibitions.

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.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

For the last 100 years, curators sat down to drink tea, but they did not do their jobs. How many artifacts are in the basement It was awful.

They were taken from the court of the temple and put underground, possibly to protect them from destruction.

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.

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.

For an unknown reason they were buried rapidly in the small tomb.

Why should I allow them to drape it If they want to make propaganda, let them do it somewhere else. They can do it in any other place in Cairo.