I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the S…

- Zahi Hawass

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve th…

- Zahi Hawass

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

- Zahi Hawass

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

- Zahi Hawass

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

- Zahi Hawass

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

- Zahi Hawass

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hip…

- Zahi Hawass

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running…

- Zahi Hawass

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

- Zahi Hawass