Zahi Hawass
"Secrets of the Sand"
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7 p.m.

Audiences worldwide know Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, as a real Indiana Jones, an archaeologist whose three-decade-long career has yielded many spectacular discoveries. Hawaas is featured in the IMAX film, MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS, now showing in the Louisville Science Center's IMAX Theatre.


Hawass' 20-plus years working on the Giza Plateau shed light on the mystery that surrounds the Great Pyramids and the men and women who built them. He has explored the Osiris shaft, an ancient tomb for the god of the dead, which lies deep within the earth. Other great discoveries made or supervised by Hawass include the Valley of the Golden Mummies, a vast Greco-Roman necropolis in the desert near the Bahariya Oasis; the lost tomb of the governor of the oasis, dating from the first millennium B.C.; and two intact 5,000-year-old tombs near Cairo. At present, he is focusing his work on excavating the Valley of the Kings, the burial ground of the monarchs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, where he expects significant finds.

This event is presented in partnership with Hanover College's Capstone Series, which is focusing on water and how -- as one of the earth's most basic elements -- it has become an underlying source of conflict throughout history.

Free; reservations required.
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