LOL! I hadn’t seen ‘Zowie’ before ;-)
:^) I used to use it all the time, before Zahi lost his position as super over Egyptian antiquities after Morsi took over.
There’s an amazing amount of ignorance on his page about this, all boiling down to a bad case of “not invented here” syndrome and xenophobia:
http://www.drhawass.com/wp/secrets-of-the-great-pyramid/