Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass announces discovery of 4,300-year-old pyramid
The 4,300-year-old monument most likely belonged to the queen mother of the founder of Egypt's 6th Dynasty, and was built several hundred years after the famed Great Pyramids of Giza, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told reporters in announcing the find Tuesday. Read More
Zahi Hawass
"Secrets of the Sand"
Audiences worldwide know Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, as a real Indiana Jones, an archaeologist whose three-decade-long career has yielded many spectacular discoveries.
Hawass's 20-plus years working on the Giza Plateau shed light on the mystery that surrounds the Great Pyramids and the men and women who built them. He has explored the Osiris shaft, an ancient tomb for the god of the dead, which lies deep within the earth. Other great discoveries made or supervised by Hawass include the Valley of the Golden Mummies, a vast Greco-Roman necropolis in the desert near the Bahariya Oasis; the lost tomb of the governor of the oasis, dating from the first millennium B.C.; and two intact 5,000-year-old tombs near Cairo. At present, he is focusing his work on excavating the Valley of the Kings, the burial ground of the monarchs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, where he expects significant finds. Photograph by Kenneth Garrett.
Read more about Hawass's findings in these recent articles:
Flamboyant archeologist believes he has identified Cleopatra's tomb
Egyptian archaeologists uncover missing pyramid
Archaeology: Egypt; Part of Khnum Temple Unearthed
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