Dr. Zahi Hawass

[Shaka_Khan]

This archaeoligist appears in numerous documentaries in three different documentary channels - the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel. I can't help noticing how he gets more agitated as his documentary participations go by. In the first documentary that I saw him, he didn't seem extraordinary from the others who appeared in the history documentaries. I didn't know much about him at that time and he didn't show any of his anger at that time. I started to notice his short temper in the reality-based show called Chasing Mummies. Sometimes I wondered whether he was just acting or not. Then I saw him in a rerun of an earlier documentary called Digging for the Truth and noticed that he seemed to be agitated in this documentary also. He seemed to be trying to hide his agitation when compared to Chasing Mummies, but he did raise his voice. I didn't notice this when I watched it for the first time before the rerun. I noticed this in the rerun because of Chasing Mummies. He seemed to be annoyed that the host named Josh Bernstein continued to bring up a guy's theory about the connection between Atlantis and the Pyramids. Dr. Hawass's face was even sweating later on as he rejected that theory. In the first documentary that I saw him (which I can't remember the title) I also remember him saying that the Pyramids were built by Egyptian engineers and not by Israelite slaves. He didn't show any anger at that time.

As I watched the Chasing Mummies episodes, I was thinking about the Egyptian revolution. It was in a recent episode when they mentioned Mubarak allowing Dr. Hawass to keep his position that I realized that this was before the demonstrations. I wondered what happened to Dr. Hawass during and after the demonstrations so I googled.............

[InsaneApache]

Perhaps he's on substances.

You can't be more careful.

[Shaka_Khan]

I believe he is a smart guy and knows a lot about ancient Egyptian history.
It's still his personality that makes him stand out the most in my opinion.

[Hax]

Yeah, sure, he knows stuff, but he suffers from perpetual tunnel vision, which has only become worse in recent years. I know for a fact that he has been criticised by other Egyptologists for his hamminess when it comes to discoveries which may have done more harm than good. I think some Egyptologists at the faculty here in Leiden aren't too big a fan of him either.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yeah, sure, he knows stuff, but he suffers from perpetual tunnel vision, which has only become worse in recent years. I know for a fact that he has been criticised by other Egyptologists for his hamminess when it comes to discoveries which may have done more harm than good. I think some Egyptologists at the faculty here in Leiden aren't too big a fan of him either.

IIRC he has been mostly discredited now, as he is basically stuck in a 1950's Nationalist narrative of Egyptology.

[Beskar]

Whilst this is interesting, it is a Monastery thread, as it is debating History or at least a Historians view of things.

Moved.

[Shaka_Khan]

I didn't think much on his view on the Israelite slaves in ancient Egypt until I googled him. What wiki shows the other things he said had citation so I guess he really made those comments.