Egyptian 'Indiana Jones' Fired - Zahi Hawass

[Bob Hubbard]

After decades of popularizing Egyptology -- from exploring the pyramids to studying mummies to digging for buried treasure -- Egypt's top archaeologist has lost his post, fired Sunday under pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of being too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Zahi Hawass, long chided as publicity loving and short on scientific knowledge, was well known for his trademark Indiana Jones hat, an icon that made him one the country's best known figures around the world. He and about a dozen other ministers were fired in a Cabinet reshuffle meant to ease pressure from protesters seeking to purge remnants of Mubarak's regime.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/18/egyptian-indiana-jones-fired/?test=faces


Say what you will about him, he was -everywhere- when it came to Egyptian history specials.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Get fired by Egypt..... Get a show on the History channel.... some how I think he will be OK

 

[Ken Morgan]

He's qualified, but it's irksome that he has never meet a camera hasn't liked.

 

[elder999]

Zahi Hawass stifled a great deal of archaelogical research, though there's no guarantee that his firing will result in that research being done. He stuck to what was safe, and was a blatant self-promoter.

Couldn't have happened soon enough, in my opinion.

(Well, Bob, you did say to say what I would about him....:lfao: )

 

[Sukerkin]

Speaking as a one-time professional in that field {archaeology and curation} ... about bloody time! Egyptology as most people know it is at best incomplete and at worst a partial fabrication, in no small part due to the machinations of Hawass.

A man most beloved ... of his own position {throws slipper ... again}.