For millennia, the Nile Valley has cast its irresistible spell over the youngest of the world's children. From its source near the site of the earliest evidence of man at Olduvai to the great river's outlet near the deserts where the prophets walked, the valley of the eternal river has been man's kindest cradle. Now, like the sun rising after a long night, an ancient power returns to the Nile Valley.

Osiris, the oldest and greatest of the Egyptian gods, has long reigned in the Lands of the Dead. A recent cataclysm in the underworld has roused Osiris from his seeming slumber to take an active hand in the living world once again. The agents of this ancient power are themselves things of legend. They are deathless beings who defy the grasp of mortality.

They are mummies...