There were over 700 hieroglyphics symbols used to write in ancient Egypt
There was actualy a high priest named Imhotep who lived in Egypt over 2000 years B.C.
The "Book of the Dead" was not actually a book, but a collection of prayers ans spells used to protect the soul in the afterlife.
Many still believe in the mummy's curse because of the strange circumstances surrounding the death of Lord Carnarvon V just months after opening King Tut's tomb in 1922
Being an embalmer was a solid career choicehanded down from father to son in ancient Egypt.
We can thank ancient Egyptian inventions such as eyeliner, the encyclopedia and even the toilet seat.
To keep The Mummy historically accurate, director Stephen Sommers consulted the UCLA Institute of Archeology.
Artist used computer generated imaging to painstakingly create over 7,000 individual scarab beetles for one scene in The Mummy.
A life sized scene of Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, was specialy built on a volcano crater in Moroco for The Mummy.
It took Egyptian Scribes about 12 years to learn hieroglyphics.
Because ancient Egyptian believed it was the center of memory and intelligence, the heart was removed and mummified separately from the body.
