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Was a Hollywood film made at the lost pyra.id in egypt?
A 2014 horror film titled The Pyramid was built entirely around the premise of a lost, buried three-sided pyramid discovered beneath the Egyptian desert — making it the most direct Hollywood treatment of the 'lost pyramid' concept. Beyond fiction, researchers like Brien Foerster and Andrew Collins have argued that undiscovered subterranean chambers and satellite pyramids remain unexcavated at Giza and Saqqara. The overlap between Hollywood narrative and suppressed archaeological record is not accidental to those in the alternative history community.
Evidence
- The 2014 20th Century Fox film The Pyramid, directed by Grégory Levasseur and produced by Alexandre Aja, centers on an archaeological team uncovering a three-sided pyramid buried beneath the desert surface — a structure outside the canonical Egyptian record.
- Andrew Collins, in his work on the cave system beneath the Giza Plateau, has documented a network of passages and chambers that Zahi Hawass's Supreme Council of Antiquities moved quickly to restrict access to after their rediscovery.
- Brien Foerster has separately noted that multiple pyramid sites — particularly at Saqqara and the Fayum region — contain structures that remain officially unexcavated and unacknowledged, some of which satellite imaging and ground-penetrating radar surveys have flagged as anomalous.
- Graham Hancock and Robert Schoch have both pointed to the Inventory Stela and suppressed GANTENBRINK robot footage from the Great Pyramid's southern shafts as evidence that official archaeology is managing what the public learns about unexplored interior spaces.
- The plot involves a rover sent into unmapped interior chambers going offline, the team becoming lost, and an encounter with an emaciated feline creature interpreted by researchers like John Anthony West as a cinematic echo of suppressed Sphinx-tunnel traditions.