Hawass mụrụ na obere obodo dị nso na Damietta, Egypt. Ọ bụ ezie na ọ bụ na mbụ nrọ nke ịghọ onye ọka iwu, ọ nwetara a bachelor nke nkà ogo na Greek na Roman Archaeology si Alexandria University na Alexandria, Egypt na 1967. Na 1979, Hawass nwetara a ubre na Egyptology si Cairo University. Hawass mgbe ahụ na-arụ ọrụ na Great Pyramids dị ka onye nnyocha <unk>a Nchikota nke onye nchịkwa na ọkà mmụta ihe ochie. Mgbe ọ dị afọ 33, Hawass e ọdịda a Fulbright Fellowship ịga University of Pennsylvania na Philadelphia na-amụ Egyptology, na-akpata a nna ukwu nke nkà ogo na Egyptology na Syro-Palestinian Archaeology na 1983, na ya PhD na Egyptology na 1987 si Graduate Group na Art na Archaeology nke Mediterranean World (AMW), na-elekwasị anya na "The Funerary Establishments nke Eskafa, Khafra na Old Alaeze n'oge Ncheta?
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