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

Decorated carttonage from the new excavations at Saqqara
Decorated carttonage from the new excavations at Saqqara

(Photo: Property of SCA)

Further information: 
A Visit to Saqqara

Location

Egypt
29° 52' 16.0572" N, 31° 12' 59.4504" E

Location

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Amarna Boundary Stela
Dr. Hawass with his Excavation Team
Dr. Hawass examining a mummy in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis
Detail of the Sarcophagus of Isisnofret
Reassembling Pottery Vessels in the Valley of the Kings
Talatat Discovered by the Italian Mission at Sheikh 'Ibada
The Friends of the Egyptian Museum
Dr. Hawass and Samuel L Jackson