People often ask me, ‘well, it’s not really as exciting as Indiana Jones, now is it?’
I reply, ‘to an archaeologist, yes, it certainly is!’

— Zahi Hawass

Dr. Hawass and his team working inside the newly discovered tomb at Saqqara
Workers looking into a shaft in the courtyard of the tomb of Amun-em-Opet
Sketching a Coffin
Tomb of Amenemhab
Detail of a Still-Wrapped Mummy Found near the Temple of Taposiris Magna
Seti I Tunnel
Dr. Hawass and Samuel L Jackson
Pottery from SCA Excavations North of Lake Qarun