[KamperKen]

"He is known worldwide for being a tremendous camera whore and self-appointed spokesman for Egypt’s antiquities. He’s as bad about self-promotion as any shameless huckster we have over here."

Hawass is a typical corrupt third-world bureaucrat and fraud. The German engineer who developed the robot to explore the air shafts in the great pyramid, Rudolph Gantenbrink, was banned from further exploration on some made-up technicality so he could steal all of the credit (which I've since read Hawass doing exactly that).

There are other intriguing features on the Giza plateau that are worth further scientific scrutiny which have been stymied by Hawass until he can claim full credit for other people's work.

[Lynne]

I understand Hawass did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.