Hawass ni a bi ni abule kekere kan nitosi Damietta, Egipti. Biotilejepe o ni ala lati di agbẹjọro, o gba iwe-ẹkọ giga ti awọn aworan ni Greek ati Roman Archaeology lati Ile-ẹkọ giga Alexandria ni Alexandria, Egipti ni 1967. Ni ọdun 1979, Hawass gba iwe-ẹkọ giga ni Egyptology lati Ile-ẹkọ giga Cairo. Hawass lẹhinna ṣiṣẹ ni Awọn Pyramids nla bi olutọju-apapo ti alakoso ati onimọ-aye. Nigbati o jẹ ọdun 33 ọdun, Hawass ni a fun ni Fulbright Fellowship lati lọ si Ile-ẹkọ giga ti Pennsylvania ni Philadelphia lati kẹkọ ẹkọ Egyptology, o gba oye oye oye ti o ni oye ni Egyptology ati Syro-Palestinian Archaeology ni ọdun 1983, ati PhD rẹ ni Egyptology ni ọdun 1987 lati Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW), ti o ni idojukọ lori "The Funerary Establishments of Eskafu Kingdom, Khafra and Menura During the Old?
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