The Mummy (1999)
Directed by Stephen Sommers
In 1926 a librarian, her brother and an American adventurer sail up the Nile from Cairo to the lost desert city of Hamunaptra, where they wake a cursed high priest who follows them back to Cairo.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Pharaoh Seti's palace≈ 00:01:00Thebes (Luxor), EgyptStated on screen
In 1290 BC the high priest Imhotep and Anck-su-namun murder the pharaoh.
- 2Burial of Imhotep≈ 00:04:00HamunaptraStated on screenFictional
Imhotep is cursed and buried alive at Hamunaptra, City of the Dead.
- 3Foreign Legion battle≈ 00:06:00HamunaptraStated on screenFictional
Legionnaire Rick survives a massacre among the ruins in 1923.
- 4Museum of Antiquities and Cairo prison≈ 00:10:00Cairo, EgyptStated on screen
Evelyn finds a map to Hamunaptra and buys Rick's freedom from the gallows so he can guide them.
- 5Riverboat attack≈ 00:25:00Nile River, EgyptInferred
Their Nile steamer is set ablaze by the Medjai and they swim ashore with the horses.
- 6Excavation≈ 00:33:00HamunaptraStated on screenFictional
- 7Plagues and the museum≈ 01:02:00Cairo, EgyptStated on screen
- 8Temple of Anubis≈ 01:40:00HamunaptraStated on screenFictional
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 2,902 km
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 8
- Not shown: 2,113 km
- Plane: 473 km
- Boat: 316 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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