Italy to grant Zahi Hawass Social Commitment award
By: Egypt Today staff Sat, Oct. 20, 2018
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's about bloody time, I've actually had the great pleasure to Zahi Hawass in person when my Daughter and I were flown over there to return a little stone tablet with the name of Imhotep and King Djoser carved in hieroglyphs on it that my Great, Great Grandfather had bought at a stall in a bazaar in Cairo after the Battle of the Nile.
Got to know him on a person to person basis, great see he still wears the Akubra hat we gave him as a gift too, wonderful bloke, good sense of humour and very dedicated to the history of the Ancient Egyptians.
Triphid
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Oct 30, 2018
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Whats up with Zahi, I heard he's obstruct a lot of excavation attempt as if he want to keep something from being known. Is that true?
IdenIzzat
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Oct 29, 2018
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No, it's total bullshit though he is passionate about ensuring that ALL Ancient Egyptian relics stay where they belong or those already ' stolen' are returned.
@IdenIzzat Zahi has allowed numerous Specialist Archaeologists, Scientific Groups, etc, as well as many others to go through the passages that are SAFE and Secure in the Pyramids, etc.
My daughter and I were also given a Guided Tour of the passages in the Pyramid of Khufu, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, Tombs of Ramses the Great, Tutankhamun, Seti I, etc, however so many passages and tombs are unstable or the decorations on the walls, etc, have been so badly damage by years of tourists trapesing through them they have had to closed until restorations can be completed and dehumidifiers can be installed.
Even though both Lorrae and I were both not at ease with heights we even got to go up the Great Pyramid to see the actual marking left behind by the work crews who built it, plus, sadly the mindless graffiti scrawled everywhere by stupid tourist from as early as the 1800s up until the late 1960s.
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