37 Quotes by Zahi Hawass

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

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.

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.

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 after them.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

When I make a new discovery, every journalist in every newspaper wants to know, ... These are all important. To know of this greatest civilization - the greatest people, both rich and poor - it is the best thing we could know.

Maybe they are mummies of kings or queens or nobles, we don't know. But it's definitely someone connected to the royal family.

Why should I allow them to drape it? If they want to make propaganda, let them do it somewhere else. They can do it in any other place in Cairo.

We don't really know what kind of people are inside but I do believe they look royal. Maybe they are kings or queens or nobles.