Mysterious hot spots detected on ancient Pyramids in Giza could reveal hidden

Giza’s Great Pyramid, also called Khufu or Cheops, featured the most significant anomaly.

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty presented the discovery in a live thermal scanning demonstration to journalists.

“This anomaly is really quite impressive and it’s just in front of us, at the ground level”, said Mehdi Tayoubi, founder of the Paris-based Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute that is conducting the Scan Pyramids experiments using a mix of infrared thermography, muon radiography and 3D reconstruction.

“To explain such anomalies a lot of hypothesis and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents”.

“The first row of the pyramid’s stones are all uniform, then we come here and find that there’s a difference in the formation”, said el-Damaty, pointing at the three stones showing higher temperatures.

Eldamaty told reporters it will take about two weeks to perform additional tests and confirm the result of the thermal scans.

On the contrary, if there are heterogeneities in the structure, such as cavities or different type of material used in the construction, temperature differences are detected since a few parts heat up or cool down faster due to difference in “heat emissivity”.

Thermal scanning of the pyramids showed anomalies.

The anomalies were found by comparing the different rates of heating up and cooling down throughout the pyramids.

Throughout the scanning, it was also revealed that a few of the limestone blocks on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid were hotter than others. Their ambitious goal is to use multiple methods of scanning the beautifully complex burial grounds from the outside, and gain more information about their inner structures.

The structure will be the subject of further investigation during the Operation Scan Pyramids project, which began on 25 October and is expected to last until the end of 2016.

Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson continues to assert his belief that the pyramids were not burial places, but instead were used to store grain. There is no evidence of this, according to CBC.

Egyptologist Beth Ann Judas said it makes sense that the anomaly is on the eastern side of the pyramid as that was in many ways the “focal point” of the pyramid, with several major temples and tombs located on that side.