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. Late last year, thermal scanning identified some anomalies, including a major one in the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza outside Cairo. 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. 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. Hawass was appointed Thursday to head a scientific committee to investigate the structures.

Source: Fox News June 02, 2016 10:41 UTC