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Dr. Zahi Hawass watches an excavation team work at the Tombs of the Craftsmen in Cairo, Egypt.
Hawass spent more than two decades promoting Egypt’s antiquities to Western culture.
museum shows around the world designed to advertise Egypt as both an
idea and destination.
In his absence, it remains unclear
whether Egypt can make such economically crucial overtures to foreign
tourists and whether the billions
— and the goodwill — Hawass once
brought in can ever come back without him.
“He created by his publicity campaigns a new image of Egypt that mobilized millions of visitors,” says Dieter Arnold, head of the Metropolitan
Museum’s Egypt Department in New
York. “He cl X[