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Thebes: City of the Living.
Crownjewel of Pharaoh Seti the First.
Home of lmhotep, Pharaoh's high priest.
Keeper of the Dead.
Birthplace ofAnck-su-namun, Pharaoh's mistress.
No other man was allowed to touch her.
But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself.
What are you doing here?
Who has touched you?
lmhotep!
My priest!
Pharaoh's bodyguards.
You must go! Save yourself!
-No. -Only you can resurrect me!
l won't leave you!
Get away from me!
You shall live again!
l will resurrect you!
My body is no longer his temple!
To resurrect Anck-su-namun...
...lmhotep and his priests broke into her crypt and stole her body.
They raced into the desert...
...taking Anck-su-namun's corpse to Hamunaptra, City of the Dead...
HAMUNAPTRA - 1290 B.C.
...ancient burial site for the sons ofpharaohs...
...and resting place for the wealth of Egypt.
For his love, lmhotep dared the gods' anger by going deep into the city...
...where he took the black Book of the Dead from its holy resting place.
Anck-su-namun's soul had been sent to the dark underworld...
...her vital organs removed and placed in fiive sacred canopicjars.
Anck-su-namun's soul had come back from the dead.
But Pharaoh's bodyguards had followed lmhotep and stopped him...
...before the ritual could be completed.
lmhotep's priests were condemned to be mummifiied alive.
As for lmhotep...
...he was condemned to endure the Hom-Dai...
...the worst of all ancient curses...
...one so horrible, it had never before been bestowed.
He was to remain sealed inside his sarcophagus...
...the undead for all of eternity.
The Magi would never allow him to be released...
...for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind...
...an unholy flesh-eater with the strength of ages...
...power over the sands...
...and the glory of invincibility.
HAMUNAPTRA - 1923
For 3,000 years, men and armies fought over this land...
...never knowing what evil lay beneath it.
And for 3,000 years...
...we, the Magi, the descendants of Pharaoh's sacred bodyguards, kept watch.
You just got promoted.
Steady!
You're with me on this one, right?
Your strength gives me strength.
Steady!
Wait for me!
Steady!
Fire!
Run, Beni! Run!
Get inside! Get inside!
Don't you close that door!
The Creature remains undiscovered.
And what of this one?
-Should we kill him? -No.
The desert will kill him.
CAlRO, EGYPT 3 YEARS LATER
"Sacred Stones.
"Sculpture and Aesthetics.
"Socrates, Seth, volume one, volume two...
"...and volume three."
And....
"Tuthmosis"? What are you doing here?
T....
"T."
l'm going to put you where you belong.
Help.
What....
Look at this!
Sons of the pharaohs!
Give me frogs, flies, locusts...
...anything but you!
Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!
l am so very sorry. lt was an accident.
When Ramses destroyed Syria, that was an accident.
You...are a catastrophe!
Look at my library!
Why do l put up with you?
Well, you put up with me because l can....
l can read and write Ancient Egyptian...
...and l can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic...
...and l'm the only person within a thousand miles...
...who knows how to properly code and catalog this library, that's why.
l put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons.
That's why!
Allah rest their souls.
l don't care how you do it, l don't care how long it takes.
Straighten up this meshiver!
Hello?
Abdul?
Mohammed?
Bob?
Have you no respect for the dead?
Of course l do!
But sometimes, l'd rather like to join them.
Do it soon before you ruin my career...
...the way you've ruined yours. Get out!
My dear, sweet baby sister...
...l'll have you know...
...that at this precise moment my career is on a high note.
"High note." Please, l'm really not in the mood for you.
l've just made a bit of a mess in the library...
...and the Bembridge scholars rejected my application again.
They say l don't have enough experience in the field.
You'll always have me, old mum.
Besides, l have just the thing to cheer you up.
No, Jonathan, not another worthless trinket.
lf l have to take one more piece of junk to the curator to try and...
...sell for you....
Where did you get this?
On a dig down in Thebes.
My whole life l've never found anything. Please tell me l've found something.
-Jonathan. -Yes?
l think you've found something.
See the cartouche.
lt's the official royal seal of Seti the First, l'm sure of it.
-Perhaps. -Two questions:
Who the hell was Seti the First, and was he rich?
He was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty...
...the wealthiest pharaoh of all.
Good. l like this fellow.
-l like him a lot. -l've already dated the map.
lt's almost 3,000 years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here...
...it's Hamunaptra.
Dear God, don't be ridiculous.
We're scholars, not treasure hunters.
Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab storytellers...
...to amuse Greek and Roman tourists.
l know all the blather that the city is protected by the curse of a mummy...
...but my research leads me to believe that the city may have actually existed.
Do you mean the Hamunaptra?
Yes. The City of the Dead...
...where the pharaohs presumably hid the wealth of Egypt.
Yes, in a big underground treasure chamber.
Come on. Everybody knows the story.
The necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command.
Turn a switch and it would disappear into the sand with the treasure.
As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum--
My goodness! Look at that!
You've burnt the part with the lost city.
lt's for the best, l'm sure.
Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra.
No one's ever found it.
Most have never returned.
Come! Step over the threshold.
Welcome to Cairo Prison, my humble home.
You told me that you got it on a dig down in Thebes.
-l was mistaken. -You lied.
l lie to everybody. Why not to you?
-l'm your sister. -Which makes you more gullible.
-You stole it from a drunk! -Picked his pocket, actually.
Stop being ridiculous.
-Why exactly is this man in prison? -This l did not know.
But when l heard you were coming, l asked him that myself.
What did he say?
He said he was just looking for a good time.
-This is the man that you stole it from? -Yes, exactly.
-Why don't we go sniff out a spot of tiffin-- -Who are you?
-And who's the broad? -"Broad"?
l'm just a local sort of missionary chap, spreading the good word.
-This is my sister, Evy. -How do you do?
-l guess she's not a total loss. -l beg your pardon.
-l'll be right back. -Ask him about the box.
We have found.... Hello. Excuse me.
We both found your puzzle box...
...and we've come to ask you about it.
-No. -No.
You came to ask me about Hamunaptra.
How do you know the box pertains to Hamunaptra?
Because that's where l was when l found it. l was there.
But how do we know that's not a load of pig's wallow?
-Do l know you? -No, l've just got one of those faces.
You were actually at Hamunaptra?
Yeah.
-You swear? -Every damn day.
-l didn't mean that. -l know. l was there.
Seti's place. City of the Dead.
Could you tell me how to get there?
l mean, the exact location.
-You want to know? -Well, yes.
-Do you really want to know? -Yes.
Then get me the hell out of here!
Do it, lady!
Where are they taking him?
To be hanged.
Apparently, he had a very good time.
l'll give you 100 pounds to save this man's life.
Madam, l would pay 100 pounds just to see him hang.
-200 pounds! -Proceed!
300 pounds!
Any last requests, pig?
Yeah. Loosen the knot and let me go.
Of course we don't let him go!
500 pounds!
And what else?
l'm a very lonely man.
No!
His neck did not break!
l'm so sorry. Now we must watch him strangle to death.
He knows the location to Hamunaptra.
-You lie. -l would never!
This filthy, godless son of a pig knows where to find the City of the Dead?
-Yes! -Truly?
And if you cut him down, we will give you....
-Ten percent. -Fifty percent.
-Twenty. -Forty.
-Thirty! -Twenty-five.
Deal.
Cut him down!