Zahi Hawass
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 28, 1947, Damietta, Egypt
- Movies
- 23
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.
Best-Known Movies
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
2023
Cleopatra's Final Secret
2025
Legend of the Lost Tomb
1997
Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
2020
Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs
1997
King Tut's Final Secrets
2005
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007
King Tut: A Century of Secrets
2022
Egypt: Engineering an Empire
2006
Tut's Lost City Revealed
2022
Filmography
| 2025 | Cleopatra's Final Secret | Self |
| 2023 | Orgullo de Quisqueya | Self |
| 2023 | Unknown: The Lost Pyramid | Self |
| 2023 | Last Secrets of the Great Sphinx of Giza | egyptolog |
| 2023 | Cleopatra | Self |
| 2023 | Secrets of Giza | |
| 2022 | King Tut: A Century of Secrets | Self |
| 2022 | Tut's Lost City Revealed | Self - Egyptologist |
| 2021 | Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs | Self |
| 2020 | Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World | Self - Friend |
| 2011 | Egypt's Lost Cities | Self |
| 2011 | Egypt: What Lies Beneath | Self |
| 2010 | Riddles of the Sphinx | Self - Supreme Council of Antiquities |
| 2008 | The Lost Pyramid | Self |
| 2008 | Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries | Self - Host |
| 2007 | Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty | Self |
| 2006 | Egypt's New Tomb Revealed | Himself (as Dr. Zahi Hawass) |
| 2006 | Egypt: Engineering an Empire | Self |
| 2005 | King Tut's Final Secrets | Self - Egyptologist |
| 2004 | Pharaoh's Revenge: Egypt's Lost Treasure | |
| 1999 | Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt | Self |
| 1997 | Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs | Maga |
| 1997 | Legend of the Lost Tomb | Director of the Pyramids |
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