#Dr Zahi Hawass

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Dr. Zahi Hawass, a former Egyptian Antiquities minister who styles himself as a real-life Indiana Jones, is about to embark on a 23-city lecture tour in the US, speaking at convention centers in all major US cities. No one seems very concerned that he is a Jew-hater. He has said that Jews immigrated to America, took over its entire economy, and now control the entire world. Hawass wrote in 2009, "The concept of killing women, children, and elderly people.... seems to run in the blood of the Jews of Palestine" and that "the only thing that the Jews have learned from history is methods of tyranny and torment—so much so that they have become artists in this field." "When I speak of the Jewish faith, I do not mean their [original] faith, but the faith that they forged and contaminated with their poison, which is aimed against all of mankind," he added. This distinguished academic also claims that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, have nothing to do with Judaism. Hawass has repeatedly rejected the idea of a museum of Egyptian Jewish history, similar to  a museum of Coptic history in Egypt, saying, "How can we have a Jewish museum for the occupiers of Palestine?"\ If an avowed racist was to lecture in the US on any topic, there would be an uproar. But a Jew-hater, who happily spreads the most vile conspiracy theories about Jews? Not a word of protest. What would it take to get Jews to protest this lecture series? 

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A 4,300-Year-Old Egyptian Gold-Leaf Covered Mummy Discovered in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists who have spent years meticulously excavating a site amid the ancient ruins of Saqqara, near Cairo, announced a number of major discoveries on Thursday dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of Egypt's "Old Kingdom," more than 4,000 years ago. One of the most important was a large, rectangular limestone sarcophagus found at the bottom of a vertical shaft about 50 feet deep.

"The sarcophagus was about 45 tons and the lid was about 5 tons," Dr. Zahi Hawass, the director of the Egyptian excavation team at the Gisr el-Mudir site in the ancient city of Saqqara.

The lid was still sealed onto the sarcophagus with mortar, exactly as it had been left there some 4,300 years ago. It took the archaeologists about two hours of careful work to crack it open.

Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

While the ancient Egyptian at the bottom of the deep shaft was no pharaoh, the elaborate sendoff to the afterlife made it clear they were also no commoner. And there was a name, inscribed on top of the sarcophagus: "HqA-Sps," or Hekashepes.

"Of course, he was important. For someone to make a sarcophagus like this, 15 meters under the ground, he should be a very important man," Hawass said.

But while Hekashepes will earn his place in the history books, the gold-wrapped mummy wasn't Hawass' favorite new discovery at Saqqara, which is part of a sprawling necropolis that used to be the capital of ancient Egypt, known as Memphis. The famed Giza Pyramids are nearby, within the UNESCO World Heritage site of Memphis.

Among the items displayed by Hawass, a veteran Egyptian archaeologist, and his team on Thursday were 14 stone statues found in another a shaft, about 33 feet deep, dating back to the "Old Kingdom," or the Age of the Pyramids, between 2700 and 2200 BC — possibly even older than the mummy of Hekashepes.

"These statues are quite unique," Hawass said. "This is the first time in this century that such a large number of statues was found in Saqqara."

"Today's discovery tells us more about art in the Old Kingdom, mummification, and also about the people who worked there," Hawass said. "One of the tombs was for a priest who was in charge of the pyramids complex of King Unas, the last king of the 5th Dynasty."

It has been a week of landmark announcements by Egyptian archaeologists, with another team revealing the discovery of a massive burial ground in the ancient city of Luxor, close to the ruins of a "complete" Roman-era city nearby.

BY AHMED SHAWKAT.

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Return looted antiquities. Sign Dr Hawass's petition:

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i think it's such a blessing to be able to see over the course of my own life the world of egyptology in media go from almost exclusively western fronted to egyptian fronted. there's so much value in egyptian teams leading research and digs and being at the forefront of their own history. they value it in a way no one else could even conceive of. i love u dr zahi hawass.

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Dr. Zahi Hawass, the renowned Egyptian archaeologist, delivered a lecture at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark about recent archaeological discoveries.

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Sie sollten mit Ihren Freunden und Ihrer Familie nach Ägypten kommen, um eine besondere Zeit in diesem wunderbaren Land zu verbringen.

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zahi Hawas se esfuerza por recuperar las antigüedades egipcias

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O Dr. Zahi Hawass está fazendo viagens especiais para ajudar mais pessoas a visitar e aprender sobre as coisas legais do Egito.

O Dr. Zahi Hawass está fazendo viagens especiais para ajudar mais pessoas a visitar e aprender sobre as coisas legais do Egito. @cairo-top-tours

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Esses passeios oferecem a chance de explorar atrações e pontos de referência próximos, como a Cidadela de Qaitbay, o Canal de Suez ou o Mar Vermelho..... https://medium.com/@zahwaabdelhamid21/o-dr-zahi-hawass-renomado-arque%C3%B3logo-eg%C3%ADpcio-deu-uma-palestra-na-universidade-de-copenhague-na-3f1df28a9444 @CairoTopTours

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Aguas con el mercurio rojo,

Durante siglos han persistido los rumores sobre una sustancia poderosa y misteriosa. Y en estos días, los anuncios y videos que lo ofrecen a la venta se pueden encontrar en línea. ¿Por qué ha perdurado la historia del "mercurio rojo"?

Hay quienes creen que es un elixir curativo mágico que se encuentra enterrado en la boca de las momias egipcias antiguas.

¿O será un material nuclear poderoso que podría disparar el apocalipsis como algunos aseguran?

Sin embargo, hay un pequeño problema con todas esas aseveraciones: el mercurio rojo no existe. A pesar de ello, puedes encontrarlo en las redes sociales y en numerosos sitios web. Cantidades pequeñas de la mítica sustancia a veces se ofrecen a un precio de miles de dólares.

Muchos de los anuncios muestran una foto borrosa de un glóbulo de líquido rojo en un plato. Junto a él, a menudo hay un número de teléfono garabateado en una hoja de papel, por si alguien lo suficientemente ingenuo quiere contactar al vendedor.

"Solo compradores serios", se lee en un anuncio. "Necesitamos pruebas de fondos para dar pruebas del producto".

La impresión dada es que se ofrece una mercancía misteriosa e ilícita. "Es una estafa y el riesgo es que engañen o le roben a la gente", dice Lisa Wynn, jefa del departamento de antropología de la Universidad Macquarie en Sídney, Australia.

En pos del mercurio rojo Wynn oyó hablar del fenómeno por primera vez cuando trabajaba en las pirámides de Giza en Egipto y compartía una oficina con el destacado egiptólogo Dr. Zahi Hawass.

Un día, el Hawass recibió la visita de un príncipe saudita cuya madre estaba en coma. "Este hombre había gastado todas sus energías y dinero tratando de encontrar algo que salvara a su madre", recuerda la antropóloga. "Finalmente había recurrido a un jeque en Arabia Saudita, un curandero, quien le había dicho que había una sustancia mágica enterrada en las gargantas de las momias en el antiguo Egipto. Le indicó que si iba a Egipto y hablaba con ese arqueólogo, él podría proporcionarle mercurio rojo".

Pero eso no fue lo que ocurrió. "Hawass le dijo: 'Siento mucho lo de tu madre, pero eso es una tontería: no existe el mercurio rojo'". Tras presenciar la escena, la asombrada Wynn descubrió que esa no era una experiencia nueva para Hawass y sus colegas. Se enteró de que a menudo conocían árabes que creían que el mercurio rojo era una cura mágica que había sido enterrada con los faraones. Los orígenes de esta creencia son confusos. Se pueden encontrar indicios en el trabajo del alquimista y filósofo medieval Jabir ibn Hayyan, quien escribió: "Los elixires más preciosos que jamás se hayan mezclado en la Tierra estaban ocultos en las pirámides".

Una historia de vampiros En tiempos más recientes, algunos de los que buscan mercurio rojo han llegado a creer que también se puede encontrar en los nidos de murciélagos. El inconveniente es que los murciélagos en realidad no hacen nidos, pero eso no ha impedido que los cazadores de fortuna perturben sus hábitats para buscar el mítico elemento escarlata. Algunos han llevado la teoría de los murciélagos un paso más allá y afirman que el mercurio rojo proviene de los murciélagos vampiros. Dentro de esa lógica, la sustancia exhibe las mismas propiedades que los vampiros de películas de terror. Por lo general, una gota roja, que a menudo parece sospechosamente creada con gráficos de video, se ve repelida por el ajo y atraída por el oro. Cuando está frente a un espejo, la gota aparentemente no tiene reflejo. Las cualidades supuestamente sorprendentes del mercurio rojo no terminan ahí. Se alega que tiene poderes para convocar seres sobrenaturales. En 2009, se difundió una historia en Arabia Saudita de que el mercurio rojo se podía obtener sin entrar en una tumba antigua o tamizar el guano de murciélago. Se rumoreaba que se encontraron pequeñas cantidades de la preciada sustancia dentro de las máquinas de coser Singer antiguas. La policía comenzó a investigar el engaño después de que esos objetos domésticos tan comunes comenzaron a cambiar de manos por decenas de miles de dólares. Pánico por mercurio rojo En algunos momentos de la historia, los rumores sobre la sustancia se han multiplicado a causa de la geopolítica global. A fines de la década de 1980, cuando los gobiernos comunistas colapsaron en Europa del Este, hubo incertidumbre sobre lo que estaba sucediendo con sus existencias de material nuclear. En ese momento, Mark Hibbs era un periodista que investigaba rumores alarmantes de que extraños individuos ofrecían a la venta un material nuclear previamente desconocido, creado en laboratorios soviéticos. En ese caso, la versión de la historia del mercurio rojo era diferente de la del elixir curativo enterrado con los faraones. Se decía que el mercurio rojo soviético era destructivo, capaz de causar una tremenda explosión nuclear con cantidades no mayores que una pelota de béisbol. El escenario de pesadilla era que esta sustancia llegara al mercado negro de armas y terminara en manos de grupos violentos o estados corruptos. Sin embargo, Mark Hibbs dice que cuando los gobiernos occidentales investigaron, concluyeron que el mentado material con el potencial para acabar con el mundo no existía. Facebook y Twitter dijeron que habían asumido una postura dura contra la actividad fraudulenta, y eliminado los anuncios rojos de mercurio que les señalamos. Cabe aclarar antes de finalizar que sí existe un mineral de color rojo que contiene mercurio: el sulfuro de mercurio. Pero comparado al mitológico mercurio rojo, es una sustancia mundana.

Aunque es muy útil para decorar cerámica, no cura nada; de hecho, puede llegar a ser perjudicial para la salud, no porque sea altamente explosivo, sino porque el mercurio -ese que ese plateado- de por sí lo es.

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Dr. Zahi Hawass with the artist Rob Law to Explain The Mysteries of the Great Sphinx and Khufu Passage @cairo-top-tours

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The Hunt: What Happened to the Great Sphinx’s Nose?

The mystery of the Egyptian statue's missing nose has fascinated people for centuries.

Much like the desert winds that perhaps helped shape it, conspiracy theories swirl around the Great Sphinx guarding the Giza plateau—especially regarding how the winged lion’s human head lost its nose. One enduring hypothesis blames Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops for blowing the snout off during target practice. While that conspiracy’s long-debunked, it persists in popular culture. Director Ridley Scott knowingly depicted the myth in last year’s Napoleon biopic, without sacrificing any of his film’s critical acclaim. However, Egypt’s Dr. Zahi Hawass told Britannica, “We have, really, to say to everyone that Napoleon Bonaparte has nothing to do with destroying the Sphinx’s nose.”

Napoleon’s 1798 battle didn’t even take place on the Giza plateau, but 10 miles north at Imbabah. Some theories have posited that storms and earthquakes shook the Sphinx’s nose from its face. Others squabble over which regional conflict (if not Napoleon’s Battle of the Pyramids) led to the nose’s destruction. In 1990, J.P. Lepre noted that “the figure was used as a target for the guns of the Mamluks,” who were actually Napoleon’s opponents.

The French emperor did, however, lay eyes on the Sphinx’s face when he arrived in Giza, with many soldiers, painters, and engravers in tow. “Thousands of years of history are looking down upon us,” he reportedly exclaimed beneath the monument’s gaze. Napoleon didn’t respect borders, but he did respect history. The Waterloo Association called the lingering accusations against him “particularly unjust because the French general brought with him a large group of ‘savants’ to conduct the first scientific study of Egypt and its antiquities.” The resulting Orientalist survey ignited an Egyptian fervor back in Europe.

Primary materials prove the nose removal predated Napoleon, too. Danish naval captain Frederic Louis Norden’s sketch from 1738 depicts the Sphinx without its central facial feature. What’s more, French naturalist Dr. Pierre Belon visited the Sphinx in 1546, writing that it had sustained damage and “no longer [had] the stamp of grace and beauty so admired by Abdel Latif in 1200”.

Medieval Arab scholars such as al-Maqrīzī pin the damage on Muhammed Sa’im al-Dahr, a 12th-century Sufi Muslim from a respected Cairo convent, who was allegedly angry that peasants used the Sphinx to entreat Abul Hol (the Arabic name for the sphinx) into helping their harvests. Removing an idol’s nose was an accepted method to suffocate spirits inside. Still, the details remain up for debate. Hawass believes that al-Dahr acted alone. Others claim he hired men to desecrate the Sphinx. Most experts, however, agree the great statue’s nose came off with a chisel. It is also generally accepted that al-Darhr’s actions got him killed by angry villagers. Sadly, the nose itself has likely crumbled into the desert.

By Vittoria Benzine.

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Through the Years → Queen Mathilde of Belgium (1,369/∞)

15 March 2023 | Working Visit of Queen Mathilde and Princess Elisabeth to the Arab Republic of Egypt (Day 2) 1) Photo Opp at Winter Palace 2) Visit to the archaeological site of El Kab 3) Visit to the archaeological site of Shaykh Abd-al-Qurna (visit of Tomb Sennefer & Tomb Amenhotep) 4) Visit to the Tomb of Tutankhamon with Dr. Zahi Hawass (Valley of the Kings) 5) Visit of Golden City with Dr. Zahi Hawass in Luxor, Egypt. (Photo by Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images)

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Book Recs: Centennial Anniversary of King Tut’s Tomb Discovery 

King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass

The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume, published to accompany the exhibition at The 02 in London, takes the reader through Tutankhamun’s tomb room-by-room in the order that it was discovered and excavated by Howard Carter, illuminating the tomb’s most magnificent artifacts, as well as all of the objects in the Tut exhibition. Dr Zahi Hawass imbues the text with his own inimitable flavour, imagining how the uncovering and opening of the tomb must have felt for Carter, while Sandro Vannini’s extraordinary photographs reproduce the objects in infinitesimal detail. This sumptuous volume is the definitive record of Tutankhamun’s glittering legacy.

The Good Kings by Kara Cooney

In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs - Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa - to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future. As the first centralized political power on earth, the pharaohs and their process of divine kingship can tell us a lot about the world's politics, past and present. Every animal-headed god, every monumental temple, every pyramid, every tomb, offers extraordinary insight into a culture that combined deeply held religious beliefs with uniquely human schemes to justify a system in which one ruled over many.

The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves

From the day in 1922 when King Tut's tomb was discovered, the legacy of the boy-king has exerted a unique hold on people's imaginations. This fascinating new book reveals the whole story behind Howard Carter's quest for the tomb and includes extracts from Carter's notes and diaries, first-time publication of many of his drawings and reconstructions, and much more.

The Life and Death of the Boy King by Christine Hobson El Mahdy

The spectacular excavations at the Valley of the Golden Mummies in 1999-2000 captured headlines & rekindled fascination with ancient Egypt. In that spirit comes a critically acclaimed biography of the young monarch whose mummified remains and fantastic treasure constituted the greatest archeological find in history. His tomb was discovered in 1922. But lost in a frenzy of speculation - anthropological, scientific & commercial - was Tutankhamen himself. 3500 years earlier, the mightiest nation on earth had crowned a seven-year-old as its king, then worshiped him as a god. Nine years later, he was dead. In Tutankhamen, Christine El Mahdy finally delivers a coherent portrait of King Tut's life and its historical significance.