A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Zahi Hawass has been called the real-life Indiana Jones and the Pharaoh of Egyptian archaeology — and not always with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zahi Hawass, perhaps the world's most famous archaeologist, hopes to discover the tomb of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti ...

Discover the mysterious Osiris Shaft beneath Egypt's Great Pyramid, a secret that baffled historians for centuries. Recently ...

A top archaeologist recently explained that the curse of the pharaohs — which had supposedly caused the demise of those who dared to disturb the ancient tombs — was actually a simple case of built-up ...

When Elon Musk tweeted "aliens built the pyramids obvs" in July 2020, Egypt's most famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass responded with a formal point-by-point scientific rebuttal, completely missing that ...

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass anticipates that 2025 will witness the discovery of Queen Nefertiti’s mummy, the announcement of how Tutankhamun died, the discovery of a new pyramid in Saqqara, and ...

The internationally renowned Egyptologist and archaeologist Zahi Hawass is calling on three European institutions to return iconic works of art that he says rightfully belong to Egypt. There is also a ...

Dr. Zahi Hawass overseeing restoration at the Egyptian Museum (image from drhawass.com) On February 2nd, a post published on now-Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass’s blog categorically stated: “I ...

Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, seems to get his name in the papers and his face on television every time anyone sticks a shovel in the ground there. The ...

Egyptology is an exciting and rewarding field, and every discovery has a story behind it. The discovery of the Solar Boat of the Khufu in 1954 is one of the most interesting. At that time, Mohamed ...