Nova, Decoding the Great Pyramid

Wednesday, Dec. 22, at 9 PM

Repeats Thursday, Dec. 23, at 2 AM and Tuesday, Dec. 28, at 5 PM

The 6-million-ton Great Pyramid of Giza is the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. How did the Egyptians engineer the mighty pharaoh Khufu’s tomb so precisely, with none of today’s surveying and power tools? And who were the thousands of laborers who raised the stones? 

NOVA presents the latest evidence from groundbreaking archaeological research that has transformed our understanding of the ancient world’s most ambitious engineering project, revealing a “lost city” and intimate details of the lives of the laborers and officials who toiled on the vast construction.