[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Zahi is OK with me. He loves his job and his enthusiasm is attractive. I would rather Egypt make money from Archaeological tourism than on the taxpayer dollar. Just so long as everybody understands that he is speaking for the Egyptian government.

[Othniel]

I read "Ages in Chaos" two winters ago. It was a great book about how the Egyptian timeline fits with the Bible if it is moved a couple of hundred years. The author (Veilekovsky, or something like that) did a nice job of showing how Hatshepsut was the Queen of Sheba, and that she was visiting her sister, who was married to Solomon. Interesting book, but ignored by Hawass & other big-time Egyptologists, as far as I've seen. I've always wondered if they downplayed it because of the whole....Jewish thing the OT is about, Egypt being a muslim country and all.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got a small collection of older NG videos on Egypt; they contain newer short docu’s, all of which feature Hawass in some way. It’s nice to be able to watch the older ones and not see him. Last night I attempted to watch “Search for the Lost Queen” or something like that, it’s about Hatshepsut. His presence is pretty much produced like any shallow propaganda film, but the rest of it is very interesting. And one of the hosts of it is the host of this new series, and shown in msg 1. :’)