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Criticism of Hawass, in Egypt and more broadly, increased following the protests in Egypt in 2011. On July 12, 2011, The New York Times reported that Hawass receives an honorarium each year "of as much as $200,000 from National Geographic to be an explorer-in-residence even as he controls access to the ancient sites it often features in its ...
The film discusses Egypt's multi-racial society and features commentary from Kathleen Martinez, a Dominican archaeologist "in search of Cleopatra," and Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former minister of ...
Egypt’s former antiquities minister Dr Zahi Hawass launched a petition in November 2022 calling for the museum to return the Rosetta Stone on the 200th anniversary of its hieroglyphics being ...
Netflix faced criticism on Twitter, with social media users accusing the series of Afrocentrism and saying that the "theft" of Greek and Egyptian cultures was continuing on Netflix. [101] Zahi Hawass , the Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities and Egyptologist , called Netflix's portrayal of Cleopatra "completely fake" and said that the ...
Zahi Hawass stated when announcing the news of his death, that the international artist had been admitted to the hospital about a month before his death after his health condition had declined significantly, [9] but he did not improve, and quite the opposite happened. He remained in continuous deterioration during the last ten days, abstaining ...
In response to the Hart controversy, Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass stated that "Africans have nothing to do with the pyramids scientifically" [335] [336] Hawass has previously commented on the race controversy and expressed the view that the Ancient Egyptians were not black and "We believe that the origin of Ancient Egyptians was purely ...
Zahi Hawass explained that the cancellation was due to media reports of Jews "dancing and drinking alcohol in the synagogue" during the private March 7 dedication, which Hawass described as a "provocation to the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims in Egypt and around the world". Hawass later added that the decision to scrap the ceremony ...
Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass has gone on record as saying that the Ancient Egyptians were not black and “We believe that the origin of Ancient Egyptians was purely Egyptian based on the discovery made by British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie at Naqada, and this is why the Ancient Egyptian civilisation did not occur in Africa, it occurred ...