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.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

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.

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

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > p. 640-641 </ ref > Recent DNA testing had also discovered that she was the daughter of Yuya and Thuya, who were the parents of Queen Tiye, thus ruling her out as Nefertiti .< ref > Hawass, Zahi et al.

Most Egyptologists believe the statuette is contemporary, but some scholars, such as Zahi Hawass, think that it was an artistic reproduction of the 26th dynasty.

Zahi Hawass therefore concludes that the figurine was possibly made as an amulet or lucky charm to sell to pious citizens.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, the former Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, believes that Nefertiti belongs to Egypt and that the bust was taken out of Egypt illegally and should therefore be returned.

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

Hawass suggested that Thutmose had created the left eye, but it was later destroyed.

Hawass also claimed that the sculptor Thutmose had created the eye, but it was later destroyed.

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

Hawass was born in Damietta, Egypt.

Others claim, however, that he was fired because a valuable ancient " statue " under the custody of Hawass was stolen from Giza.

When U. S. President Barack Obama was in Cairo in June 2009 Hawass gave him personal tours of the sites of ancient Egypt.

In a blog on his website it was reported that Hawass " will continue excavating, writing books, and representing his country.

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

Hawass added that DNA analysis was out of the question because it would not lead to anything.

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

On April 17, 2011, Hawass was sentenced to jail for one year for refusing to obey a court ruling relating to a contract for the gift shop at the Egyptian Museum to a company with links to Hawass.

Hawass said that the decision was made at " a time when Muslim holy sites in occupied Palestine face assaults from Israeli occupation forces and settlers ".

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.

Egyptian state television reported that Hawass called upon Egyptians not to believe the “ lies and fabrications ” of the Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya satellite television channels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In June 2007 Hawass announced that he and a team of experts may have identified the mummy of Hatshepsut in KV60, a small tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

In February 2010, Hawass and his team announced that they had analyzed the mummies of Tutankhamun and ten other mummies and said that the king could have died from a malaria infection that followed a leg fracture.

In January 2009 Hawass wrote in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that " 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.

In an interview on Egyptian television in April 2009 Hawass stated that " although Jews are few in number, they control the entire world " and commented on the " control they have " of the American economy and the media.

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.

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.

On February 13 Hawass said that eighteen artifacts, including statues of King Tutankhamun, were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in January.

In the midst of the 2011 Egyptian protests, Hawass arrived at the Egyptian Museum on January 29, 2011 to find that a number of cases had been broken into and a number of antiquities damaged.

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

" 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.

" Hawass ' blog said that archeological sites in Egypt were being safeguarded and that looted objects had been returned.

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.

Critics say the Hawass clothing commercializes Egyptian history and there were accusations, which proved incorrect, that models had sat on or scuffed ancient artifacts during a photo shoot for advertisements.

He also alleged that Ankhesenamun and the Hittite Prince she was about to marry were also murdered at his orders .< ref > Hawass, Zahi.

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