Ask most people what they know about Egypt and their answer is usually pyramids and mummies. Ask what they know about mummies and the answers are most often from movies and television rather than history or archeology. In a way, itÕs probably good that they havenÕt depended on history f...
told that their names can be written in such and such a way in hieroglyphics, or who are simply told that the name of the Egyptian sun god is "Ra" -- the pronunciation we find in the entertaining and fun but silly and historically absurd movies Stargate (1994) and The Mummy (1999)....