“Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this can...” — Zahi Hawass Quote

“Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.”

“Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.”

“I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.”

“When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.”

“After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.”