Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس‎; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley. Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the United States, Chasing Mummies. His views and links to business ventures and the Mubarak regime have engendered controversy. In connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was later lifted.

Filmography

• 2023Cleopatra
• 2023Last Secrets of the Great Sphinx of Giza — egyptolog
• 2023Orgullo de Quisqueya
• 2023Secrets of Giza
• Tombs Of Egypt: The Ultimate Mission
• The Pyramids: Solving The Mystery
• Al Frenga
• King Tut Unwrapped
• Ancient Egypt Unearthed — Cast
• 2004Pharaoh's Revenge: Egypt's Lost Treasure
• 1997Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs — Maga
• 1997Legend of the Lost Tomb — Director of the Pyramids
• Egypt's Mystery Chamber

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2025Cleopatra's Final Secret — Self
• 2023Unknown: The Lost Pyramid — Self
• 2022King Tut: A Century of Secrets — Self
• 2022Tut's Lost City Revealed — Self - Egyptologist
• 2021Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs — Self
• 2020Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World — Self - Friend
• 2011Egypt's Lost Cities — Self
• 2011Egypt: What Lies Beneath — Self
• Chasing Mummies — Self
• 2010Riddles of the Sphinx — Self - Supreme Council of Antiquities
• Egypt Unwrapped — Self
• 2008Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries — Self - Host
• Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries — Himself
• 2008The Lost Pyramid — Self
• 2007Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty — Self
• 2006Egypt's New Tomb Revealed — Himself (as Dr. Zahi Hawass)
• 2006Egypt: Engineering an Empire — Self
• 2005King Tut's Final Secrets — Self - Egyptologist
• 1999Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt — Self