Published June 02, 2016
Egypt's former antiquities minister and famed Egyptologist is back in the field after joining a group of experts scanning the pyramids for new discoveries.
Zahi Hawass says he hopes the new scanning technology, which uses subatomic particles known as muons to examine the 4,500 year-old burial structures, will help solve their remaining mysteries.
Late last year, thermal scanning identified some anomalies, including a major one in the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza outside Cairo.
Hawass was appointed Thursday to head a scientific committee to investigate the structures.
For more than a decade he was a celebrity starring in TV documentaries, but was dismissed after Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak and faced corruption charges, of which he was later cleared.
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