Topic: Zahi Hawass
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the biggest statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III and another of the goddess Sekhmet, the country's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Tuesday.Both statues were discovered at the pharaoh's temple on the western bank of ...
CAIRO (Reuters Life!) - Security has been tightened around Egypt's antiquities trove, the target of looters during mass protests, the country's top archaeologist said on Monday, adding he would now resume a quest to repatriate prized items.Several Pharaonic-era treasures went missing when ...
Thieves stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archeological sites across Egypt since protests against the government broke out in January, Egypt's minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass said Sunday in a newspaper interview."We are investigating all the incidents to find the items. ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian antiquities authorities have recovered a statue of the renegade Pharaoh Akhenaten that was stolen along with eight other items during protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak.Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said this week thieves had ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's pharaonic treasures have survived the unrest almost unscathed and restoration work has started on the few artifacts damaged in a raid on the Egyptian Museum, the head of antiquities said Wednesday.Zahi Hawass said no artifacts had been stolen ...
Archaeologists voiced deepening concern on Thursday after fresh street battles erupted around Cairo's Egyptian Museum housing the gold sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun and other priceless relics.Websites and chat-rooms buzzed with anxiety after a break-in last Friday that left a number of glass ...
Archaeologists have found fragments of a statue of an ancient god and a pharaoh in a site that once housed ancient Egypt's largest funerary temple, the antiquities council said on Thursday.The fragments, a bust of the god Hapi depicted as a baboon ...
The museum agreed to recognise Egypt's right to 19 relics in its possession since early last century, the council said in a statement.The artefacts, which include a bronze figurine of a dog with a golden collar and a sphinx, part of a ...
Zahi Hawass is a prominent archaeologist who specializes in ancient Egyptian artifacts. BA in Greek and Roman archeology at Alexandria University Diploma in Egyptology at the University of Cairo 1987 Received Ph.D University of Pennsylvania In May of 2008 Hawass revealed that ...
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and a team of researchers claim to have found the possible burial site of Cleopatra 's remains. Egyptians hope to find Cleopatra's tomb (April 16, 2009) Archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic plan to start digging on ...
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