This is a summary. You need a subscription to read the full article. It does show him as running his own personal fiefdom, or pharaoh-dom, but it’s not completely negative.
I want my Hitler Channel back.
Did they say what training the interns had? Were they archeology grad students?
Presumably, but they didn’t really go into it.
The abstract is online, but full-text requires registration.
Dr. Hawass, all by himself, is capable of making me long for the return of colonialism. 
I would not mind an Egyptian ‘personality cult’, but his personality appears on screen so damn grating, fake and obnoxious! Even knowing nothing whatever about the man or his contributions to science, his mere appearance in a show kills interest in its subject dead.
Surely there exist Egyptian Egyptologists with gravitas and charisma … !
That hack has a reality show? Jesus, what has the world come to? Seriously, I can’t stand that guy - he gives archaeology a bad name.
That’s exactly what it is to- it has little to do with archaeology and less to do with history. I wonder how long before somebody comes out or goes into a confessional. You can tell Hawass is eating it up too; I’d thought perhaps this was because he knew hustling for a buck is a regrettable but necessary way to get funding for an expedition, but apparently that’s pretty much his real personality.
The problem is that Hawass’ show isn’t really about archeology, its really just another melodramatic reality show like “Axmen” or “Ice road truckers.” Sure there is a thin veneer of archeological and historical information being passed to the viewers, but 90% of the show is him being an ass to other, obviously intentionally, dimwitted people. I’m all for bringing the History channel back to real shows about history, but sadly this ain’t one of them.
It’s settled then. I’m going to specifically design my tomb to be camera-crew friendly as possible, but so otherwise uninteresting to scientists or grave robbers as to go undisturbed by anyone but desperate hacks looking for a good filming location.
And I’ll have the spooky inner chambers loaded with plutonium dust.
(This, of course, involves me having my own royal tomb built in the Egyptian desert for some reason. Details, details.)
Dr. Hawass seemed to me for years to be an enthusiastic supporter of Egyptology who really cared about expanding knowledge on the subject and making accessible to people. And then I started reading stuff about him here. The show last night confirmed what people who are in a position to know have said about him on the board in the last couple of years, that he’s a Class-A douche.
cardouche, surely?
Ouch.
Only if it spells his name.
This is completely how I felt. We watched it up until they raced frantically to the pyramid to free the poor contrived idiot. What? You just take random people into a dig site? And then don’t make sure they come out?
I said, “well, I guess she probably doesn’t die. Let’s watch something else now.”
It also seemed like Hawass’ primary job is to run around saying, “I don’t have time for this.”
I did like the bit where someone asks, ‘Could the have died?’
Hawass says, ‘Sure. Why not?’
Yeah that was pretty funny.
OTOH, on the history channel now they’re playing Prehistoric Monsters, which is actually really informative and interesting.
This guy has been a self-promoting asshole of the first degree for over a decade. Seems like reality TV has be about getting people to piss on each other in front of the camera. I saw 2 seconds of a trailer for this, and that’s all I needed to know I wouldn’t be watching.
I’d like to make a MILF-hunting porn film called Chasing Mommies.