Essay from Federico Wardal

Dr. Zahi Hawass
Ramsis the Great exhibition: legendary  Egyptian Archaeologist Zahi Hawass at De Young Museum  . 
The tomb of Cleopatra VII and Marc’Antonio, city of gold in Luxor, discovery in Sakkara, the biography of Zahi Hawass
Exclusive interview by Federico Wardal 
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 Legendary Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass is already history.  Hundreds of awards that highlight sensational discoveries in Egyptian archaeology have been given to Hawass and the field has grown enormously over the years due to his constant and tireless archaeological activity.

Hawass reports on excavations in Sakkara, at the oldest pyramid in Egypt, where the tomb of the pyramid architect, a temple and numerous tombs are being unearthed. He took a trip to Rome on 21 March 2022 and visited the Egyptian Academy to inform them about the progress in locating the tomb of the most powerful majesty in the world, Queen Cleopatra VII, the last patron of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.  

Cleopatra wanted to be buried with Marc Antonio, on the day of their suicide, so as not to satisfy the emperor Octavian's wishes that they be captured and taken to Rome to be humiliated.  Horace, the poet and official historian of Emperor Octavian, makes Cleopatra say, in his verses: " Antony is now beside me forever, with a lock of my black hair on his heart". 

The most famous and powerful queen in the world was the most important promoter of cosmopolitan culture. She brought about dialogue between peoples and ordered Antonio to replace in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which her ancestors had founded, the writings burned during the war with Julius Caesar.

Hawass announced the discovery of a city of gold near Luxor and on 20 August 2022 a colossal traveling exhibition on Ramsis the Great will come to the De Young Museum in SF . The exhibition is currently in Houston.

A great novelty of enormous historical and cultural importance is that Hawass has just finished writing his biography, full of intriguing revelations that help to uncover new aspects of human history through studying the ancient Egyptian civilization. Cloaked in mystery, some have thought they were connected with the world of the invisible and extra-terrestrial. 

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