The Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has said in a press release that media reports of this " are unfounded and misleading " and that " The Castiglioni brothers have not been granted permission by the SCA to excavate in Egypt, so anything they claim to find is not to be believed.

The study of Egyptology, however, has in recent decades been taken up by Egyptian archæologists such as Zahi Hawass and the Supreme Council of Antiquities he leads.

On August 30, 2003, Reuters further quoted Hawass: " I'm sure that this mummy is not a female ", and " Dr Fletcher has broken the rules and therefore, at least until we have reviewed the situation with her university, she must be banned from working in Egypt.

" On different occasions, Hawass has claimed that the mummy is female and male.

Dr. Hawass has maintained the stance that Egyptian authorities were misled over the acquisition of Nefertiti in 1913.

Several German art experts have attempted to refute all the claims made by Hawass, pointing to the 1924 document discussing the pact between Borchardt and the Egyptian authorities, though, as discussed earlier, Borchardt has been accused of foul play in the deal.

Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the United States, Chasing Mummies.

Hawass has written and co-written many books relating to Egyptology, including King Tutankhamun: The Treasures from the Tomb, published to coincide with a major exhibition in the UK.

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.

According to Hawass, " Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

Hawass has been skeptical of DNA testing of Egyptian mummies: " From what I understand, it is not always accurate and it cannot always be done with complete success when dealing with mummies.

Hawass has been a long-standing opponent of normalized relations between Israel and Egypt.

Hawass has been widely accused of domineering behaviour, forbidding archaeologists to announce their own findings, and courting the media for his own gain after they were denied access to archaeological sites because, according to Hawass, they were too amateurish.

A few, however, have said in interviews that some of what Hawass has done for the field was long overdue.

Hawass has typically ignored or dismissed his critics, and when asked about it he indicated that what he does is for the sake of Egypt and the preservation of its antiquities.

Hawass has been closely associated with former President Hosni Mubarak's government.

The recent genetic study has claimed the body as that of Akhenaten .< ref > Hawass, Zahi et al.

He has debated Zahi Hawass over the interpretation and appropriation of artifacts and texts associated with this period and their relevance to modern Egyptian identity and pride.

This identification has recently been advocated by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass.

In 2007, Hawass threatened to ban exhibitions of Egyptian artifacts in Germany if Nefertiti was not lent to Egypt, but to no avail.

In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten ( mummy KV55 ) and Akhenaten's sister and wife ( mummy KV35YL ), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as " The Younger Lady " mummy found in KV35 .< ref name =" Hawass2010 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten ( formerly Amenhotep IV ) and one of Akhenaten's sisters .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

Recent DNA analysis sponsored by the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass published in February 2010, identified The Elder Lady in a side chamber of Amenhotep II's tomb ( KV35 ) as Queen Tiye .< ref name =" autogenerated640 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

The results of genetic and other scientific tests published in February 2010 have confirmed that the person buried there was both the son of Amenhotep III ( as well as the father of Tutankhamun ), and also that his age at the time of his death was in fact consistent with that of Akhenaten's ; it is therefore almost certain that it is indeed Akhenaten's body .< ref name =" HawassZahi "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

Hawass already sells a line of hats similar to the ones he wears, which mimic the ones worn by Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones movies.

A workers cemetery used at least between Khufu's reign and the end of the Fifth Dynasty was discovered south of the Wall of the Crow by Zahi Hawass in 1990.

* website of the American University in Cairo Press retrieved ( in situ ) 12: 21 20 / 10 / 2011 ( shows: Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000 ( Edited by Zahi Hawass & Lyla Pinch Brock )

In a more recent research effort led by Hawass, the mummy known as " The Younger Lady " was put through CT scan analysis.

These graffittos were first reported by Flinders Petrie in 1883 and then lost to historians until the year 2001 when egyptologist Zahi Hawass rediscovered them.

" Although Stierlin had argued " Egyptians cut shoulders horizontally " – Nefertiti had vertical shoulders, Hawass said that the new style seen in the Nefertiti bust is part of changes introduced by Akhenaten, the husband of Nefertiti.

However, genetic studies of the Egyptian royal mummies, led by Zahi Hawass and Carsten Pusch, have now established that Tutankhamun ’ s biological mother was KV35YL, the " Younger Lady " discovered in the mummy cache in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

The National Geographic forensic researchers instead presented a new theory that Tutankhamun died from an infection caused by a badly broken leg since he is often portrayed as walking with a cane due to spina bifida, a hereditary trait in his family on his father's side .< ref > Hawass, Zahi.

ISBN 1-59102-401-3 </ ref > In 2010, a team led by Zahi Hawass reported that he had died from complications caused by malaria and Kohler's disease but another team from the Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg believes his death was caused by sickle-cell disease.

An all-Egyptian team of researchers headed by Afifi Rohiem under the supervision of Dr. Zahi Hawass were looking for the pharaoh's tomb.

The discovery was announced by Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, on 11 November 2008.

On September 24, 2007, it was announced that a team of Egyptian archaeologists led by Zahi Hawass, discovered eight baskets of 3, 000 year old doum fruit in King Tutankhamun's tomb.

* The Younger Lady who, in June 2003, was controversially claimed to be Nefertiti by British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher, whereas Egypologist Zahi Hawass believed it to be Kiya, another wife of Akhenaten who is believed by some to be the birth mother of Tutankhamun.

* Isis and the Feathered Serpent, produced by Miguel Angel Fernandez and curated by Zahi Hawass and Eduardo Matos, was presented in the West Wing of the Nave Lewis Exposition Centre.

" Hawass later told the New York Times that thieves looking for gold broke 70 objects, including two sculptures of Tutankhamen, and took two skulls from a research lab before being stopped as they were leaving the museum.

In 2010, Dr. Zahi Hawass, sent an open letter to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the Mayor of New York City insisting on improved conservation efforts.