Zahi Hawass
- Acting
- May 28, 1947 · Damietta, Egypt
Biography
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, Chasing Mummies. His views and links to business ventures and the Mubarak regime have engendered controversy. In connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was later lifted.
Known for
Filmography
- Cleopatra's Final Secret · Self
- Orgullo de Quisqueya
- Unknown: The Lost Pyramid · Self
- Last Secrets of the Great Sphinx of Giza · egyptolog
- Cleopatra
- Secrets of Giza
- King Tut: A Century of Secrets · Self
- Tut's Lost City Revealed · Self
- Tombs Of Egypt: The Ultimate Mission
- Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs · Self
- Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World · Self
- The Pyramids: Solving The Mystery
- Al Frenga
- Egypt's Lost Cities · Self
- Egypt: What Lies Beneath · Self
- Chasing Mummies · Self
- King Tut Unwrapped
- Riddles of the Sphinx · Self
- Ancient Egypt Unearthed · Cast
- Egypt Unwrapped · Self
- The Lost Pyramid · Self
- Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries · Self
- Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries · Self
- Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty · Self
- Egypt's New Tomb Revealed · Self
- Egypt: Engineering an Empire · Self
- King Tut's Final Secrets · Self
- Pharaoh's Revenge: Egypt's Lost Treasure
- Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt · Self
- Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs · Maga
- Legend of the Lost Tomb · Director of the Pyramids
- Egypt's Mystery Chamber