The Lost Pyramid

Five thousand years after it was built, the fourth pyramid of Giza has been found.

For centuries, the Giza plateau has been defined by three pyramids. This film reveals there was a fourth — and that its story rewrites everything we thought we knew about Egypt’s most powerful dynasty.

Hidden in a high-security military zone just five miles north of the Great Pyramid, the ruins of Djedefre’s lost pyramid had been overlooked by archaeologists for decades. With exclusive filming rights secured to an excavation led by Dr Michel Valloggia of the University of Geneva and sanctioned by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the film captures the moment this forgotten monument was finally brought back to light — piecing together a structure that would have soared 25 feet above the Great Pyramid itself, encased in polished granite and visible for miles across the desert.

Premiering on the History Channel, the documentary follows an international team of leading Egyptologists as they uncover a massive causeway larger than any previously discovered, a stone quarry still intact after five millennia, and artefacts that overturn the accepted history of the Khufu dynasty. Among the most remarkable revelations — that Djedefre, long cast as a villainous traitor to his family, was in fact the architect of one of Egypt’s most iconic monuments: the Sphinx.

Brought to life through cutting-edge visual effects that reconstruct the lost pyramid for the first time, the film redraws the map of the Giza plateau — and restores a forgotten pharaoh to his rightful place in history.