Posted on 05/01/2015 7:57:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Who needs HBO or Netflix when you can watch the great Zahi Hawass make a complete ass out of himself for free? In what for many alternative history buffs was going to be a more anticipated head-to-head encounter than next year's Batman vs. Superman, the former supremo of Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities had agreed on participating in a high-profile public debate with Graham Hancock, taking place on Wednesday this week at the Mena House Hotel in Egypt.
Alas, it was not to be, with Hawass going into meltdown before the debate even began. The cause? One single photograph of Robert Bauval - the man who put forward the Orion Correlation Theory about the Giza pyramids - included at the start of of Hancock's presentation. One mere glance at it was all it took for Dr. Hawass to go completely berzerk, start insulting Graham and his poor wife Santha, and storm out of the room!
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But wait, the groan-fest continues! During the Q&A, one attendant had the gall to ask Hawass for his opinion on the 10,000-year-old Turkish megalithic site Göbekli Tepe, and the impact this site might have on Egypt's archeology - for example, on the controversy over the age of the Sphinx. The man who used to be the gatekeeper of an entire nation's historical heritage, the one who had the first and last word in green-lighting any excavation on Egyptian soil, and who has belittled and mocked whoever dares to question the Great Pyramid's age or its purpose, admitted on the record that he'd never heard of Göbekli Tepe before.
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Re: Zahi Hawass
Love the many documentaries on ancient Eygpt. Not too crazy about Zahi Hawass who appears on nearly every one of them. Guy annoys me.
‘Celebrity’ ‘Egyptologist’ Hawass
I have to agree with Hawass, the ancient alien crowd are a bunch of brain damaged morons.
He’s the Dr. Oz of Egyptology.
Yeah, while Haw-ass was something of an jerk, I can imagine his frustrations, kinda like with Apollo astronauts dealing with moon landing conspiracists.
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He’s an ass but he does care about the heritage and has about as much tolerance for the idiots as I do.
The problem with Dr. Hawass isn’t his aversion to the Ancient Alien crowd. They deserve being laughed at. It’s his jealousy and abuse of anybody who puts even a finger into what Hawass considers his exclusive rights to the spotlight. His disparagement of any theories that deviate from “accepted” Egyptology dogma resembles the “settled science” hubris of the AGW cult.
That I give him.
Being unemployed might have something to do with it!
The greatest real accomplishment of the Arab Spring was flushing this arrogant dipshit out of office.
They are biting the hand that shouldn't even be feeding them.
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Never been a Zahi Hawass fan. He managed Egyptian antiquities as if they were his own basement collection.
Likewise, I have never been a Zahi Hawass fan.
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