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From Wikipedia page on 'Chasing Mummies'


Chasing Mummies is a pseudo-documentary reality television series on The History Channel, produced by Boutique TV, about archaelogist and Egyptologist Zahi Hawass' discoveries in Egypt.[1] The series began on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 and airs Wednesdays at 8pm on History.

also the wiki page for Hawass was an interesting read. Not only is he an arogant ass he is an antisemite to boot.

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Is "Chasing Mummies" your first acquaintance with Dr Hawass?

also the wiki page for Hawass was an interesting read. Not only is he an arogant ass he is an antisemite to boot.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahi_Hawass

Some of this information needs updating. Hawass has been using DNA testing to help identify royal mummies for quite some time.

From the Wiki article, where do you infer that he's an arrogant ass? And as far as anti-Semitism goes, he is a Muslim, so one would expect him to have a definite opinion on the conduct of Israel, a neighboring nation. I'm not sure I would characterize that as anti-Semitism in an ideological or racial sense. Hawass has stated that the pyramids were not built by Hebrew slaves, and that there is no evidence for the Exodus in Egypt (both frank statements of truth), which has led to some hollering anti-Semitism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Mummies

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No this not my first experience with Hawass, since apperntly he is the only person allowed to do television interviews on Egypt. Also I was going to caviot my original post with the antisemitsm with it being no big surprise for an Egyptian Muslim.

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The Bible doesn't claim Hebrews built Pyramids.

And yes there is plenty of evidence, no "Proof" but load of evidence there looking in the wrong era of Egyptian history, stuck on the 18th/19th Dynasty assumptions that began with Josephus and Eusebius's excerpts of Manetho and have today been popularized by Hollywood.

The 12 and 13th Dynasty of plenty of evidence of ethnically Semitic slaves.

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"The concept of killing women, children and elderly people... seems to run in the blood of the Jews of Palestine" and that "the only thing that the Jews have learned from history is methods of tyranny and torment - so much so that they have become artists in this field."
I can see where the conduct of Israel might make a Muslim say such a thing. He doesn't say "the Jewish people," he says "the Jews of Palestine," because it's something they've done.

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