The uncritical among you would say that it’s just a movie, but some of us aren’t down with non-western cultures being used as fodder by western cultural institutions for cartoonish fantasy. None of the designs are consistent with ancient Egyptian iconography or archaeological reality. The Mummy's sarcophagus is not ancient Egyptian at all. None of the art/props have any actual ancient Egyptian styling or features to them. They are not any form of ancient Egyptian. They are not Egyptian hieroglyphs, which would certainly be used in any religious, magical, or deity-related context. The marks on the Mummy's face and body are a newly made-up writing system. However, the name in this movie, Ahmanet, is not a possible name for an Egyptian. I-m-n means, roughly, the Hidden One, and Amunet, therefore means 'the female hidden one,' or 'She of Amun' (a major Egyptian god). The similar name Amunet, is an ancient Greek version of the Egyptian name I-m-n-t. The Mummy's name, Ahmanet, is not a possible ancient Egyptian name. Also, the big pyramids were built roughly four thousand and six hundred years ago. It had been conquered nearly fifty years ago, and it had no magic princesses left.

However, two thousand years ago, Egypt was a Roman province. The supposed archaeologist says that the mummy has been locked up for two thousand years. I was fuming during the movie and once I got back home, I looked up IMDB to find many factual errors.

Egyptian language in the mummy movie