What Is Zahi Hawas Hiding From Us About Ancient Egypt?

Egypt is a land steeped in history and culture, with its ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs serving as a testament to its glorious past.

However, with a rich history comes a host of controversies, and Egypt has seen its fair share of them over the years. One name that is often associated with controversy in Egypt is Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities.

Hawass has been involved in many disputes throughout his career, ranging from accusations of corruption to clashes with foreign archaeologists. He has also been criticized for his abrasive personality and his tendency to dominate the field of Egyptology in Egypt.

Archaeologist and former Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, Zahi Hawass claims to have discovered Queen Nefertiti's mummy!

But, why does this discovery hold much significance? Is it related to Zahi Hawass corruption or is there something else? Well, let's find out…

Nefertiti was famous for her beauty, which was immortalized in an iconic bust currently housed in Germany's Neues Museum.

However, Nefertiti is most known for her marriage to the divisive pharaoh Akhenaten. They aimed to change Egyptian religion by developing a monotheistic religion centered on the exclusive worship of the sun deity Aten.

She may have reigned for a few years following her husband Akhenaten's death. However, the next king, Tutankhamun, reintroduced polytheism to Egypt. His stepmother was Nefertiti and Tut finally married his half-sister, Ankhesenamun, the daughter of Nefertiti.

Archaeologists have claimed to have discovered Nefertiti's tomb for the last seven years but all these instances were multiple misidentifications.

But now, Hawass is leading excavations at Luxor's Valley of the Kings, where they discovered two mummies, marked KV21A and KV21B, in a single tomb at the valley's eastern end.

This is not common since many tombs in the Valley of the Kings contain multiple mummies but here they have found only two! These two are unique and it is believed that one of the mummies is of Nefertiti.

Hawass himself predicts that they would be able to announce the discovery of the mummy of Tutankhamun's wife, Ankhesenamun, and her mother, Nefertiti by October 2022.

However, several months have passed since his announcement and the archaeological community awaits confirmation of the discovery of the century with bated breath.

Is there something wrong going on behind the doors and why has Hawass not revealed the discovery yet? Let us know about your thoughts in the comment section below.

Now, let’s discuss another controversy of Zahi Hawass where he has been called for interrogation over allegations that he assisted three German amateurs in stealing rock samples from within Egypt's tallest pyramid.

Although Hawass dismisses the allegations, claiming that "there is nothing against me." but keeping in view his track record, what do you think is true?

In April 2013, three Germans - two amateur archaeologists and a film-making companion - went into the inner sanctuary of Giza's Great Pyramid, the last of the ancient world's seven marvels to remain largely intact.

The three, conspiracy theorists Dominique Görlitz, Stefan Erdmann, and Peter Hoefer, aimed to prove that the pyramid was not, as has long been assumed, the last burial place of the pharaoh Khufu, but rather a vestige of an even earlier civilization.

In order to demonstrate this, they scraped a portion of the cartouche - the symbol that indicates for whom the pyramid was erected - and sent it to Germany for examination.

Following worldwide outrage, the samples were returned, and the men were tried in absentia, along with five Egyptian officials accused of assisting them in unlawfully accessing the pyramid.

All eight were found guilty after a trial in which the five officials alleged that Hawass, a controversial former antiquities minister, had assisted the theft of the samples while filming a documentary on the cartouche.

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