Ok, so i'm just now finding this out, that this *^#$) has finally been released from his job.

He is the reason i lost interest in Egyptian history.. No wonder i missed the news. But I'm glad hes gone, he was a scam, a thief and a liar. Perhaps now we can get back to the bushiness of scientific exploration.

Anyone else also feel the same about this 'person'? And i use that term loosely.

The story i saw involved the torching of institute.. such a loss of history. Not on the scale as the burning of the great library of Alexandria, but still a tragic loss none the less.

He wasn't all that bad... really only had a few minutes of him in every egyptian show, but once you were past that few minutes everything else was ok....

quote Originally posted by 1985FieroGT: He wasn't all that bad... really only had a few minutes of him in every egyptian show, but once you were past that few minutes everything else was ok....

His arrogant face being on tv was only part of it. He hindered exploration during his tenure and literally stole discoveries..

Although I truly appreciate history and the Egyptians have some of the most interesting history, I just cannot get around the fact that this guy would spend years looking for a sarcophagus and then dig the thing up, remove the mummy, and display it in a museum. That is the most disrespectful thing that anyone can do. I would have rather not disturbed the mummy, used todays scientific equipment to see inside the sarcophagus, and then left everything intact just out of respect. Although he was not the first person to do this type of thing, he seemed to be the greedy one that would "secure" a site so that no one could enter. Almost as if he owned the land. He was/is very annoying and his resume just reeked of controversy.

Hawass was not my favorite person. I have been to Egypt several timers and all I ever saw was him claiming credit for everything that happened in Egyptian archeology. He was arrogant, very opinionated, and nobody else could tell him anything on any subject. I will be pleased to see and hear less of him claiming personal credit/supervision of every site in Egypt.

Nelson

I always thought he was kind of knowledgeable, and interesting to listen to.

Guess I was wrong.

Good riddance to that asshat !!!!.....I do believe that there are some amazing discoveries waiting to happen in Egypt regarding ainchent technology, and that jackass was just standing in the way and hiding from the world anything of value that was found. Time for some open scientific exploration.

quote Originally posted by IMSA GT: Although I truly appreciate history and the Egyptians have some of the most interesting history, I just cannot get around the fact that this guy would spend years looking for a sarcophagus and then dig the thing up, remove the mummy, and display it in a museum. That is the most disrespectful thing that anyone can do. I would have rather not disturbed the mummy, used todays scientific equipment to see inside the sarcophagus, and then left everything intact just out of respect. Although he was not the first person to do this type of thing, he seemed to be the greedy one that would "secure" a site so that no one could enter. Almost as if he owned the land. He was/is very annoying and his resume just reeked of controversy.

To give him one bit of credit, the one time they did that on TV that i watched, the place was about to be flooded so they had to either remove it, or lose it.

Yes he felt it was all his.. and his alone.

quote Originally posted by IMSA GT: I just cannot get around the fact that this guy would spend years looking for a sarcophagus and then dig the thing up, remove the mummy, and display it in a museum. That is the most disrespectful thing that anyone can do. .

I disagree there. If somebody digs me up in 5,000 years and finds a wrench in one hand and a blackberry in the other, I would see no disrespect in the people of the future seeing my cold dead body and learning how us lived in the past so distant they cant remember what a wrench or blackberry was.
My family comes from Denmark, and stone-age implaments are common finds over there. I have 2 neolithic flint axe-heads dug up there on the family farm by my great-great grandad. They have been passed down father-to-eldest son for over 150 years, and there is no disrespect. Its a symbol of our heratige and a link to our past. Someday Nick will get them, and someday after that, his eldest son.

Those things are amazing, when you think they were chipped out and pollished by hand with no tools besides what nature supplied.

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