Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

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.

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.

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

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.

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.