![]() ![]() ![]() Hawass, who in June played host to President Barack Obama on a ninety-minute tour of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, at Giza, near Cairo, is the international star of Egyptology, thanks largely to a steady flow of television documentaries and books to which he is attached, with titles built out of the words “mummies,” “gold,” “sand,” and “mystery.” He is also the field’s C.E.O.-or, as he puts it, “in charge of everything in Egypt.” It’s as if Jacques Cousteau, in his heyday, had taken on the task of approving everyone else’s scuba-diving permit. For the past seven years, he has been the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, or S.C.A., which oversees Egypt’s ancient sites and artifacts, and controls access to them. Illustration by Floc’hĪmong the National Geographic Society’s Explorers-in-Residence-Jane Goodall and a dozen favored others-Hawass is the only one to have a staff of thirty thousand people. Hawass has allowed the space between the discipline of Egyptian archeology and its popularization to shrink almost to nothing.
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