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It’s not a king’s tomb, nor even a queen’s. It doesn’t belong to any member of any royal family. It’s not even very old, by Egyptian timelines. It appears to…
January 15, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More
Well, it’s not the end of the world after all. It is, however, an excellent example of what is wrong with governments funding research at universities. Sven Gronemeyer of La…
December 1, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
07-21-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell So, last Sunday, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and television star Zahi Hawass was escorted out the back door of “his” Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square…
July 21, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More
07-18-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell He was known in the West as quixotic, egotistical, dictatorial, short-tempered and impossible to work with. But to Westerners, Zahi Hawass was a brilliant archeologist…
July 18, 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More
04-22-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Once upon a time in ancient Egypt, there was a female Pharaoh named Hatshepsut, who died in 1458 B.C.E. She was a very successful Pharaoh…
April 22, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
04-18-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Happy Tax Day everyone, though I still haven’t figured out how we got an extension when the 15th was a Friday, not a weekend. The…
April 18, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
04-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell For many years, I assumed that Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass was unmarried. The first time I saw him on television he spoke of the pyramids…
April 14, 2011 / 6 Comments / Read More
04/13/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Roughly one thousand pieces went missing from the Cairo Museum in Egypt, but this weekend, Minister of State for Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass announced that some…
April 13, 2011 / No Comment / Read More
Getting Wiped In Egypt
04-22-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Once upon a time in ancient Egypt, there was a female Pharaoh named Hatshepsut, who died in 1458 B.C.E. She was a very successful Pharaoh…
April 22, 2011 / No Comment / Read More