After leaving my work in the Egyptian government in 2014, I accepted to work as a visiting professor at the University of Sierra Nevada for a year.
This university is one of the 100 most important universities in the world, located in the most beautiful spot on earth on the border of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
As soon as I arrived at the university, I found a great reception from all the university’s professors and students.
During the reception, the president of the university gave a speech welcoming my arrival, and some of the deans of the University also gave speech to welcome me.
As soon as the reception ceremony was over, I found the president of the university telling me that the governor of Nevada, decided to honor me.
My first lecture in the university, entitled, ‘How Pharaohs build Egypt. King Scorpion Suppression.’
The title of the lecture was strange and unfamiliar to archaeology students, especially since they expected me to focus on excavations and discovery lectures about the royal pyramids and mummies.
“But I had a strong desire to introduce the origins and constants of the ancient Egyptian civilization by returning to the true roots of the civilization of the Pharaohs,” Hawass added.
He moved to talk about the King Scorpion, saying, despite having a limited information about him, he is one the of the real founders of Egypt, as the first country in the history of the earth.
“The reason behind this was his name which was written by only using the image of a scorpion not any other letters,” he added.
“It was not strange in those ancient times to give men names such as the snake, the scorpion, the lion, the falcon and other names that refer to the strength of valor, the wisdom of the mind and the cunning of its bearers,” Hawass clarified.
“The Scorpion King is one of the kings of the so-called Family Zero. The ruling family paved the way for the birth of a unified Egypt and the beginning of the dynastic era in the First Dynasty. In face, its kings are the heirs of the Scorpion King, to whom the credit for establishing an Egyptian army led him to unite Egypt with its northern and southern parts.”
“Finding the Scorpion King’s funnel inside what is known as the “main cache” in the temple of the Horus was one of the most important discoveries of the 1897-1898 season,” he added.
” Unfortunately, finding the famous King Narmer’s Pillar was the reason for the Scorpion King’s funnel to go to the Oxford Museum in England.”
“This well-established belief that the hand which fights and carries weapons in order to protect Egypt and secure its borders is the same hand that carries the axe to cut canals and cultivate the land. The same belief still exists and is rooted in the Egyptian army in our time despite the lapse of more than five thousand and two hundred years.”
“The genes of the Egyptian have not changed as the Egyptian army, carrying weapons to defend the country’s security, is still the same army that cultivates, builds and sustains,” he concluded.
