Reply #95: Here's some info on that source you say is not credible:

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Dr Zahi Hawass:

EDUCATION

1987 Ph.D. - EGYPTOLOGY
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1983 M.A. - EGYPTOLOGY & SYRO-PALESTINIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1979 DIPLOMA - EGYPTOLOGY
Cairo Universtity, Alexandria, Egypt
1967 B.A. - GREEK & ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY

HONORS

October 2006 Featured as an archaeologist in an exhibition at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis
May 2006 Named top “100 most influential” people in the world by Time Magazine
August 2005 Lectured with top 30 famous writers, scientists and Nobel prize winners to the Adventures of the Mind Society, comprised of 150 accomplished high school students in the United States, at Stanford University, U.S.A.
Feb. 2005 Honorary Doctorate, American University in Cairo
Nov. 2002 Name inscribed on C.D. for the Mars Exploration Rover 2003 mission
2002 Received an honor from the Egyptological Society in Spain as one of the five pioneers of Egypt, including Naguib Mahfouz, Omar Sharif, Ahmed Suweil, and Om Kolthoum.
2001 -Honored by Mansoura University for his many achievements and
contributions to Egyptian society and the archaeological community worldwide; this honor was previously awarded to Om Kolthoum, Omar Sharif, Ahmed Suweil, and Naguib Mahfouz
-Selected by National Geographic as one of its Explorers-in-Residence

-Awarded the Silver Medal and membership in the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

2000 -Named Distinguished Scholar of the Year by the Association of Egyptian-American Scholars

-Received Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement: one of thirty honorees of international prominence to receive this award. This honor was previously awarded to people who have won the Noble prize, actors, kings and queens, and prime ministers

-Appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

-Mellon Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania
1998 -Received First Class award for Arts and Sciences from President
Mubarak; this award is in honor of Dr. Hawass’ restoration of the Sphinx

-Received “Pride of Egypt” award from the members of the foreign press in Egypt for achievements in archaeology
1980 Fulbright Scholar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 - present Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities
1998 - 2002 Undersecretary of the State for the Giza Monuments
1987 - 1997 General Director of the Giza Pyramids & Saqqara & Bahria Oasis
1980 Chief Inspector, Giza Pyramids, Cairo
1974 - 1979 First Inspector of Antiquities, Giza Pyramids, Embaba, and Bahria Oasis
1974 - 1975 Inspector of Antiquities for Boston Museum of Fine Arts at Giza Pyramids
1974 Inspector of Antiquities, Pennsylvania Expedition at Malkata, Luxor
1973 - 1974 Inspector of Antiquities, Abu Simbel
1972 - 1974 Inspector of Antiquities, Embaba, Giza, Cairo
1970 Inspector of Antiquities, the Western Delta at Alexandria
1969 Inspector of Antiquities, The Pennsylvania Yale Expedition at Abydos
1969 Inspector of Antiquities, Edfu-Esna, Egypt
1969 Inspector of Antiquities, Italian Expedition at Sikh Abada, Minia
1969 Inspector of Antiquities of Middle Egypt at Tuna El-Gebel and Mallawi

FIELD WORK

2006 - PRESENT
Excavation in the Workmen’s Village at Giza
-Excavation in the area between the back of the Sphinx and the second pyramid

-Supervisor of excavation at the temple Ramses II at Heliopolis

-Supervisor of excavation at Taposiris Magna in Alexandria

-Supervisor of excavation of the temple of Ramses II at Akhmim


1999 - PRESENT Excavations at the Valley of the Golden Mummies and the 26th Dynasty site at Bahriya Oasis
1999 Director of the Excavation of the Western Field of Khufu's Pyramid
1999 Director of the Excavation of the Water Shaft under Khafre's Causeway
1999 Director of the Excavation of the Valley of the Mummies, Bahriya Oasis
1996 - PRESENT Director of Excavation of the Third Pyramid at Giza
1995 - PRESENT Director of Excavation in front of the Valley Temple of Khafre
1992 - PRESENT Director of Excavation of the Pyramid Complex of Teti at Saqqara
1991 - PRESENT Co-director of the Excavation to the southeast of the Sphinx (Workmen's Village)
1991 - PRESENT Director of Nazlet-el-Batran Excavation
1991 - PRESENT Director of the Excavation of Beni Youssef
1991 - 1995 Director of Excavation of the Old Kingdom Settlement at Giza (Nazlet- E1-Samman)
1991 - 1995 Director of Excavation east of the Great Pyramid
1990 - PRESENT Director of Excavation of the Tombs of the Overseers of the
Pyramid Builders, southeast of the Sphinx
1990 - 1991 Director of Excavation of the Causeway and the Valley Temple of Khufu
1988 - 1995 Director of Excavations of the Western Field of Khufu's Pyramid
1987 - 1988 Director of Excavation of the site of Kafr-El-Gebel, east of the Sphinx
1980 Director of Excavations in front of the Sphinx Temple and northeast corner of the Sphinx of Giza (Old Kingdom)
1979 - 1980 Director of Excavations at Abou-Rawash (Archaic Cemetery)
1978 Director of Excavation at northeast corner of Sphinx and
Nazlet-El-Samman, Giza (Old Kingdom)
1976 - 1977 Archaeological Survey at South Yemen on behalf of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization and UNESCO of the Arab League
1976 Director of Preliminary Excavations, Merimdeh Beni Salama (prehistoric)
1975 Director of Excavations at Kom Abou Bellou, Delta
(Pharaonic, Greek, Roman site)
1975 Director of Excavations at Khus Abou Zied, Embaba Province
(Late Period)
1970 - 1974 Associate Director of Excavations at Kom Abou Bellou
(Pharaonic, Greek, Roman)
1968 Associate Director of Excavations at Ashmuneim, Middle Egypt (Greek, Roman)
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CONSERVATION PROJECTS

2002-present -Major important conservation projects of Islamic monuments in Old
Cairo and also the Jewish and Coptic monuments

-Major important conservation work of the temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis, the Serapeum at Saqqara

-Important conservation of the churches and mosques in cities outside of Cairo and Islamic houses in Rashied
Prior to 2002 Conservation and site management of the Giza Plateau and Sphinx
1999 Conservation of three tombs south and east of Khufu's pyramid
1999 Conservation of the Second Pyramid (which was closed in July 1999 and will be reopened shortly)
1999 The conservation plan of the tomb of Khent-Kawes, the tombs south of Khafre's causeway, and the funerary temple of Khafre
1998-1999 The conservation plan for the site of Abu Sir
1998-1999 Conservation of the Great Pyramid of Khufu (which had been closed on April 1, 1998 and reopened in June 1999)
1998-1999 Restoration of the Sphinx Temple
1998 Completion of the restoration of the Sphinx (Celebration in May)
1998 Conservation of the three Queen's Pyramids near the Great Pyramid of Khufu
1998 Restoration of the tombs at the Snedjem-Ib tomb complex and the tombs of Debhen and Iwnu-Min
1997 Director of Conservation of the Third Pyramid (Menkaure)
1996 Director of Conservation of the Second Pyramid (Khafre)
1991 - 1994 Conservation project of the restoration of the interior of the Pyramid of Unas
1990 - 1992 Conservation project of the Alabaster Sphinx statue at Memphis and the Ramses II statue
1990 Conservation projects of Old Kingdom tombs at Saqqara, such as the Two Brothers, and others
1990 Director of Conservation of the Third Pyramid
1990 Director of Conservation of the Tombs of Nobles and Officials (20 tombs were opened.)
1989 - PRESENT Director of the Sphinx Restoration Project
1989 - 1992 Conservation projects of the tombs of the Late Period at Bahria Oasis
1989 Director of Restoration of the Great Pyramid
1987 - 1993 Director of Conservation of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara
1987 - 1988 Director of Conservation of the Second Pyramid at Giza (Khafre)

SITE MANAGEMENT

*Plan of site management:

1. Discussed in the papers of the 2000 Congress of the International Association
of Egyptologists in Cairo, Egypt

2. Application of proposed measures:
-stopping excavation at Upper Egyptian sites (Giza to Aswan)
-GIS
-conservation
-excavation in the Delta
-conservation of the Unfinished Obelisk in the Aswan Quarries, Kalabsha,
Kom Ombo, Dendara, Edfu, Valley of the Kings, Giza, and Saqqara

*These ideas were presented at the congress in 2000 and were implemented in 2002 when I became the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
1991 - PRESENT Archaeological site management of Memphis
1987 - PRESENT The management of the site of the Giza Plateau.
It was divided into three phases. Two phases were finished.
The third phase, which began in December 1996, is expected to be finished soon and will complete the conservation of the plateau.
Alexandria, Egypt

Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس‎) (born 28 May 1947 in Damietta, Egypt) is an Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist and the current Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.<1> He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley.

Hawass originally intended to become a lawyer, but then studied Greek and Roman archaeology at Alexandria University, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree. He obtained a diploma in Egyptology at the University of Cairo, then continuing his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Doctoral Degree (Ph.D) in 1987.

After 1988, he taught Egyptian archaeology, history and culture, mostly at the American University in Cairo and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998, he was appointed secretary of state and director of the Giza Plateau. In 2002 he was appointed Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Hawass has appeared on television specials on channels such as the National Geographic Channel, The History Channel and Discovery Channel. Hawass has also appeared in several episodes of the U.S. television show Digging for the Truth, discussing mummies, the pyramids, Tutankhamun, Cleopatra, and Ramesses II.
Hawass also worked alongside Egyptologist Otto Schaden during the opening of Tomb KV63 in February 2006 — the first intact tomb to be found in the Valley of the Kings since 1922.
In June 2007, Hawass announced that he and a team of experts may have identified<4> the mummy of Hatshepsut in KV60, a small tomb in the Valley of the Kings.<1> The opening of the sealed tomb was described in 2006 as "one of the most important events in the Valley of the Kings for almost a hundred years."
With the assistance of some of the world's leading Egyptologists, Hawass created and hosted the documentary Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries.

Hawass is currently spearheading a movement to return many prominent unique and/or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf (the architect of the Khafra Pyramid), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries. In July 2003, the Egyptians demanded the return of the Rosetta Stone. Hawass, as secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, told the press, "If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity."

Hawass is also a vocal opponent of ancient astronauts' theories about a previous highly technologically advanced, worldwide civilization. He appeared on a History Channel show to dispel the theories, and provided evidence to show that the Egyptians built the pyramids of Egypt.

List of works by Zahi Hawass
Hawass has written and co-written many books relating to Egyptology. Many of his books coincide with his positions of Ancient Egypt. He is the author of many books including King Tutankhamun: The Treasures from the Tomb, published to coincide with a major exhibition in the UK.] He has also written an article on Tutankhamun in Ancient Egypt magazine, and has written several articles for this bi-monthly UK-based magazine in the past.

Hawass is now a regular columnist for Egypt Today magazine.
References

^ a b Zahi Hawass's home page
^ http://www.history.com/minisites/lostpyramid
^ http://www.kv-63.com/
^ The Quest for Hatshepsut - Discovering the Mummy of Egypt's Greatest Female Pharaoh
^ "King Tut's Mystery Tomb Opened", video documentary, Discovery Channel, first aired 9 July 2006
^ Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner (2003-07-20). "Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2006-10-05.
^ Henry Huttinger (2005-07-28). "Stolen Treasures: Zahi Hawass wants the Rosetta Stone back, among other things". Cairo Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-10-06.
^ a b Egyptology News» Blog Archive » Hawass says that Tutankhamun was not black
^ a b The Show-Biz Pharaoh of Egypt's Antiquities. Sharon Waxman. New York Times. 13 June 2005.
^ Hawass, Zahi (May 2005). "A New Era for Museums in Egypt". Museum International (Oxford: Blackwell Synergy) 57 (1-2): 7–23. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0033.2005.00505.x.
^ "Unravelling the Mummy Mystery - Using DNA (citing Interview with al-Ahram issue 512.)". Egyptology Online. Retrieved on 2009-04-10.
^ "Unravelling the Mummy Mystery - Using DNA (citing Interview with "Travel Egypt" magazine, 2004.)". Egyptology Online. Retrieved on 2009-04-10.
^ King Tutankamun: The Treasures of the Tomb : Books : Thames & Hudson
^ King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition
^ Egypt Today - The Magazine Of Egypt

Yep. Just not credible.

BTW, there are more credentials if you're interested: http://www.guardians.net/hawass/background.htm