Zahi Hawass Essays

  • Theories of King Tutankhamun’s Death

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    his legs and ran over h... ... middle of paper ... ...han others, but none of them are accepted as the real cause entirely without any argument. It might be solved with the upcoming new technologies. Or it might never be solved. Works Cited Hawass, Y. Z. "King Tut’s Family Secrets." National Geographic Sept. 2010: 7-8. National Geographic. Web. 5 Mar. 2014. Knapp, Alex. "Forensic Experts Claim That King Tut Died In A Chariot Accident. "Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 04 Nov. 2013. Web. 03 Mar. 2014

  • A Hobby Of the Past

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    maintain them otherwise life would be unadventurous. Works Cited "Egyptian Law on the Protection of Antiquities." Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . Heritage Key. "drhawass.com - Zahi Hawass." drhawass.com - Zahi Hawass. Heritage Key, n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . Slackman, Michael. "Egypt's Tomb Raider-Off and (Mostly) on Camera." New York Times 17 Apr. 2009, New York ed., sec. A: 12. Print.

  • Emmanuel's Dream Analysis

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    Emmanuel’s Dream is the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a boy born in Ghana with a deformed leg. As a baby his father left, yet his mother had faith and believed her first borns deformity was not a curse. Growing up, Emmanuel’s mother carried him to school until he became too heavy for her and from that point on every day he hopped two miles to class by himself. Being the only child with disabilities was difficult, and initially none of his classmates would include him. Saving his money, Emmanuel

  • The Theories Of King Tutankhaman's Cause Of Death

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    King Tutankhamen was a 18th Dynasty, known for his famous tombs. Unfortunately, the King was also known for his mysterious death. King Tutankhamen’s death has been a mystery for many centuries. With a sudden death around the age of 18, several people were left wondering what really happened to cause his demise. Even more, when a British archaeologist, named, Howard Carter, found his tomb in the Valley of Kings, in 1922 (The Humanities, Culture, Continuity and Change, p. 65), experts from all over

  • The Alchemist

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    The summary of the book is that there is a boy named Santiago he is an Englishman and he wants to go find treasure in Egypt. My thesis for this novel is that the boy Santiago should learn about nature and to follow his heart. First, he wants to go find treasure, so the child goes to Egypt to find the treasure that he wants. He had the same dream a couple of times about the same thing, and the dream was about him finding treasure in Egypt. During his journey he finds three main people, and those type

  • Puzzle of King Tut's Inner-Coffin as Recreational Activity

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    Puzzle of King Tut's Inner-Coffin as Recreational Activity The King Tutankhamun jigsaw puzzle consists of 1000 individual, cardboard pieces which fit perfectly together to form a 13.75 X 38.5 inch portrait of his inner-coffin. It serves a dual purpose, not only as a two-dimensional replica of King Tut's coffin, but also as a form of recreational activity. The fun lies in methodically assembling the pieces together to create a desired image. Its intended consumer ranges from kids to adults. The

  • The Alchemist Analysis

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    A boy named Santiago, who was a shepherd and travels around with his flock. He had met many people along with his travels, people included older woman who could interpret dreams, the old king, crystal merchant, the Englishman, and the alchemist. These people who help the boy pursuit his dream and given him tremendous courages. The story started at an abandoned church and the boy dreamed a hidden treasure and the child playing with his sheep, the child showed the hidden treasure was located in

  • Royal Egypt Act Of Incest

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    96). Tutankhamun became famous on November 26, 1922, when his tomb was discovered (Sayre 75). It was the only tomb that robbers did not get to the tomb. Tutankhamun was a pharaoh, who was crowned at nine years old, 3,300 years ago according to Zahi Hawass article, “King Tut’s family secrets: DNA evidence reveals the truth about the boy king's parents and

  • The Collapse Of The Old Kingdom

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    respect and belief in the Pharaoh caused its people the take matters into their own hands. . “The grain of Egypt is/common property/ "I go-get-it." and the whole palace is without its revenues. The king 's storehouse is "I go-get-it," for everyone” (Hawass, 19). The loss of revenue caused a loss of the religiousness of the tombs because the amount of wealth was shown by the lavishness of a tomb. Egyptians in desperate need of money and food for not only themselves but also their families caused them

  • Egyptian And Egyptian Art: The Rosetta Stone

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    Jilmer Cortez Art The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C, it is a stone with Egyptian and Greek language writing on it, and using Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek script. In 1799 the French soldiers where rebuilding a fort in Egypt and found the Rosetta Stone. The stone was found in a small village called Rosetta, that is the reason why the stone is called Rosetta Stone. The writing on the Stone is a message called a decree, about the king. French Scholar Jean Francois Champollion realized that

  • Mystery of the Great Sphinx of Giza: Understanding the Sphinx From a Material Culture Point of View

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    Cornell University Press, 2002. Hadingham, E. "Uncovering secrets of the Sphinx." Smithsonian 40, no. 11 (2010): 32-41. Hawass,Zahi. Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twentity-first Century. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. Hawass,Zahi. The secrets of the Sphinx: restoration past and present. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. Hawass,Zahi. "Remnant of a Lost Civilization?." Archaeology 47, no. 5 (1994): 45-47. Hourig, Sourouzian. "Old Kingdom Sculptures

  • Rosetta Stone Analysis

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    founded by Napoleon’s army in 1799 in the Nile delta. Britain has had the Rosetta Stone for the past 200 years. The British Museum has it as a centerpiece in their Egyptology collection. A man by the name of Zahi Hawass, who is the director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, has made it a point to negotiate with academics and curators at the British Museum on getting the stone back. Vivian Davies the man who is

  • The Pyramids Research Paper

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    the workers who built them. Where were they buried? Who were the men and women behind this great enterprise?” These are the thoughts and feeling of Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist and Egyptian archaeologist whose crew unearthed the tombs of pyramid builders and discovered important aspects of ancient Egypt that are relevant to the pyramids. Dr. Hawass is not alone in the curiosity he experienced in regards to the ancient pyramids; there are myriads of people that have shared his sentiments over the

  • Cleopatra Research Paper

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    1 CLEOPATRA Cleopatra VII was the last pharaoh of the Ancient Egypt. Even though her actual name was Cleopatra VII, no one remembered the ones before her so she was simply as known as Cleopatra. Cleopatra is one of the most popular women figures of the ancient world who has ruled a Hellenistic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt between the years 51 BC to 12 BC. Her relationships with the Roman general; Julius Caesar and the Roman politician; Marc Anthony gave her a huge role on the development of the Roman

  • How Were The Egyptian Pyramids Built?

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    Have you ever wondered what whether the level of engineering skill that ancient Egyptians had were considered modern? A giant triangular shaped monument built by the ancient Egyptians, called pyramids, can show this. Pyramids reveal ancient Egypt’s engineering styles because of how it was built, what it was made out of, and what was inside the pyramid. One of the ways pyramids can show ancient Egyptians’ engineering skill is by the development of pyramid building. Pyramid building techniques were

  • Compare and Contrast 4th Dynasty painting and sculpture and the reign of Ahkenaten

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    Egypt was a culture steeped in religion and bound by the ideas of order and balance; and so was their artwork. Because most pieces produced were depictions of reigning pharaoh’s divine relationship with the Egyptian gods and his role as king of Egypt (Hawass), the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty gave life to specific cannon in Egyptian art called the “law of frontality (Egyptian Art).” All gods, pharaohs and noblemen would be depicted based on this standard. These standards left little room for artistic innovation

  • The Great Pyramid of The Seven Wonders of the World

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    Egyptians' achievement seems even more impressive. The pyramids were the tombs of ancient Egyptian kings, or pharaohs. The pharaohs wanted to make sure that after their death, they would rise to the heavens and be worshipped as gods. According to Dr. Zahi Hawass, the director of archaeology at Giza, building a pyramid was a way "to help the king become a god." The pyramid shape may have originated from prehistoric Egyptian burial mounds, which were made of heaped-up earth. The shape had a religious meaning

  • King Tutankhamen Essay

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    Deep in the abysmal, rocky contours of modern-day Luxor’s western bank, a collection of dry beds host the Wadi Bidan el-Muluk, otherwise known as the Valley of the Kings (Hawass 9). Here, Ancient Egyptian workers had toiled through scorching desert heat to create a series of tombs that would house the physical bodies of their pharaohs. The choice of isolation for this complex of wadis, their towering and mammoth architecture, as well as the detailed, colorful decoration depict the significance of

  • Rosetta Stone Influence

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    For 1,500 years, the world had lost the way to understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts. Then, in 1799, a French soldier stumbled upon an artifact that sparked a race to read the forgotten words of the pharaohs. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in the ruins of the fort St. Julien, near the mouth of the Nile downriver from Rosetta. Renowned by the entire world, the Rosetta stone changed people’s lives because of its origins, how it influenced life today, and the battle of where it belongs

  • The Great Sphinx of Giza

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    In Schoch’s analysis of the Sphinx and its enclosure, he found multiple types of weathering from water, wind, flaking and disintegration. He believed the rounded edges that appear on the Sphinx and the enclosure are a “classic textbook example of what happens to limestone wall when you have rain beating down on it for thousands of years”. This type of erosion would require a lot of rain, and given the present climate of Egypt, it would have to have happened before the drying up of the Sahara