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Egypt’s former interior minister leads new treasure hunt inside the pyramids

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Egypt’s interior minister leads new treasure hunt inside the pyramids – Jun 2, 2016

Egypt’s former antiquities minister and famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass is back on the treasure hunt, having joined a group of experts scanning the pyramids for new discoveries.

On Thursday, at the great Pyramid of Giza, Hawass said that he hopes the new scanning technology – which will use subatomic particles known as muons to examine the 4,500 year-old burial structures – will help solve their remaining mysteries.

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Late last year, thermal scanning identified some anomalies, including a major one in the largest pyramid.

READ MORE: Egypt detects ‘impressive’ anomaly in Giza pyramids scans, plans more research

The Antiquities Ministry appointed Hawass to head a scientific committee to investigate the structures.

For more than a decade, Hawass was a celebrity, starring in TV documentaries, but he was dismissed after the 2011 uprising and faced corruption charges, of which he was later cleared.

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