Zahi Hawass
Actor
Biography
Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley.
Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the United States, Chasing Mummies. His views and links to business ventures and the Mubarak regime have engendered controversy. In connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was later lifted.
Filmography
Cleopatra's Final Secret
as Self 2025
Legend of the Lost Tomb
as Director of the Pyramids 1997
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
as Self - Friend 2020
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
as Self 2007
Egypt: Engineering an Empire
as Self 2006
Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs
as Maga 1997
King Tut's Final Secrets
as Self - Egyptologist 2005
King Tut: A Century of Secrets
as Self 2022
Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs
as Self 2021
Egypt's Lost Cities
as Self 2011
Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt
as Self 1999
The Lost Pyramid
as Self 2008
Tut's Lost City Revealed
as Self - Egyptologist 2022
Egypt's New Tomb Revealed
as Himself (as Dr. Zahi Hawass) 2006
Riddles of the Sphinx
as Self - Supreme Council of Antiquities 2010
Cleopatra
2023