Our story today starts with a woman named Susie.

In 1975, Susie was about 24 years old, and right out of university, she landed a job at the

Beirut's National Museum.

I studied archaeology.

In fact, I had a degree in political sciences.

This is Susie, Susie Hakimia.

I mean, it seems that fate brought me to the department of Antiquis.

There was a vacancy.

And when she started working at the National Museum in Beirut, she joined a team of older,

mostly male, archaeologists who were a little confused about why she was there.

I remember when I came, one of the archersers said,

what are you going to do?

I said, I don't know if she gave me the work.

I will, I mean, when they will give me what I have to do.

And in a way, they found it very funny to have somebody very, very young.

Her boss at the time was this well-known, respected Lebanese archaeologist named Maurice Shihab.

Maurice had earned the title of the father of Lebanese archaeology,

because in the early 20th century in Lebanon, he had been responsible for a bunch of important excavations.

He was kind of a big deal.

And Susie quickly learned that her boss didn't like going by Maurice Shihab.

If you don't call him, Amir, he wouldn't be happy.

But instead, he insisted on being called Emir Maurice Shihab, or Prince Maurice Shihab.

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