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Top Egyptologist Zahi Hawass ridiculed Beyonce for being insufficiently reverential when he took her on as tour of the pyramids this week, in an outspoken attack on the US celebrity; “I showed her the Sphinx and I gave her a book on King Tutankhamen,” the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities told al-Shorouk newspaper reporter Summer al-Gamal.
“She’s a stupid person and she doesn’t understand a thing and she doesn’t want to understand,” he complained, “She’s coming here to take pictures and that’s it,” The outspoken tour guide, who showed President Obama round the pyramids earlier this year, is the world’s foremost authority on Egyptology, revealing intimate knowledge of several curses in his 2000 book ‘Valley of the Golden Mummies’.
According to his entry on Wikipedia three relatives died on consecutive years the day he moved some artifacts from the Kom Abu-Bellou site and he was also haunted by dreams of children after moving two mummies. “He came to the conclusion that mummies should not be displayed though it was a lesser evil than allowing the general public into the tombs,” says Wikipedia in its ‘Curse of the Pharaohs’ entry.
“Hawass also recorded an incident relating to a sick young boy who loved Ancient Egypt and was subject to a “miracle” cure in the Egyptian Museum when he looked into the eyes of the mummy of King Ahmose I. Thereafter the boy read everything he could find on Ancient Egypt, especially the Hyksos period.”
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