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"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."
"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."
"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."
"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."
"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."
"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job."
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"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up."
"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."
"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."
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