El legionari Rick O'Connell i el seu soci descobreixen durant una batalla a Egipte les ruïnes de Hamunaptra, la ciutat dels morts. Passat un temps, aquest descobriment us permetrà salvar la seva vida i tornar al lloc amb una egiptòloga i el seu germà, on coincideixen amb un grup d'americans. Tots ells, seduïts per l'aventura, provocaran la resurrecció de la mòmia d'un diabòlic sacerdot egipci que intenta recuperar desesperadament la seva estimada.
Transcorre l'any 1330 abans de Jesucrist. A Tebes, Sinhué l'egipci explica la seva vida. Abandonat en néixer a les aigües del Nil, és recollit per un matrimoni que l'adopta com a fill. Així, cursa estudis de medicina, professió del pare adoptiu i fa amistat amb Horemheb, el fill d'un formatger. Durant una cacera de lleons, els dos joves salven la vida del faraó i entren així al servei. Sinuhé es convertirà en el cirurgià personal del governant, però aviat es veurà arrossegat les intrigues que amenacen el faraó.
Després d'una nova campanya victoriosa, Kheops, faraó de l'antic Egipte, planeja construir per a ell i els seus incomptables tresors una tomba monumental i inexpugnable. Decideix confiar en les arts de Vashtar, un arquitecte estranger de gran talent que es troba entre els presoners. Amb la condició de l'alliberament del seu poble, Vashtar li presenta el projecte d'una piràmide gegant, que quedarà hermèticament segellada per mitjà d'un enginyós mecanisme de la seva invenció. Mentrestant, la jove i ambiciosa princesa de Xipre Nellifer ha maquinat un pla per seduir el faraó i convertir-se en l'única reina d'Egipte.
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapped, embalmed and buried with treasure, each mummy tells the story of the criminals, priests, children and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
Major Briggs, one stiff upper-lipped Brit, receives a hand-to-head treatment in a North African bar. Impressed, he recruits the most skilled American specialists to help him blow up Rommel's most treasured ammo depot. Perilous desert journey awaits them, especially given an inevitable rendezvous with one immoral priest, a German nurse right beside him.
Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.
The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic writing system, and inspired the creation of the pyramids. Mace heads, a stone mounted on a wooden shaft, were an early weapon of war. They were used like a club to strike enemies on the head. The scorpion mace head was too large to have been used as a weapon, and was clearly reserved for ceremonial purposes. Archaeologists believe they have found the tomb of the Scorpion King at the ancient burial site of Abydos. He was buried with 700 wine jars, several of which had come from as far away as ancient Palestine. The Scorpion King may have presided over the birth of phonetic writing earlier than any other civilization in the world—200 years before the first pharaohs.
A study of the ruined Egyptian pyramid of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Djedefre, including evidence from a ten-year excavation which supports new theories about his reign and the pyramid's importance.