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- Born
- 1947-05-28
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Secrets from the Sand
- Valley of the Golden Mummies
- Tutankhamón
- Tomb of Tutankhamun
- The Boy King and I - Solving the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt's Most Famous Pharaoh
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Acting · Damietta, Egypt
Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley. Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the United States,…
Known for
- Cleopatra's Final Secret — Self2025
- Cleopatra2023
- Unknown: The Lost Pyramid — Self2023
- Orgullo de Quisqueya2023
- Secrets of Giza2023
- Last Secrets of the Great Sphinx of Giza — egyptolog2023
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Zahi Abass Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, a position he held twice. He has worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
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1947 births21st-century Egyptian politiciansAcademic staff of The American University in CairoAlexandria University alumniAntiquities ministers of EgyptArt and cultural repatriationBLP articles lacking sources from January 2016Cairo University alumniCommanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicEgyptian archaeologistsEgyptian Egyptologists