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This week we’re joined by Em, host of Verbal Diorama, to discuss quite possibly the perfect movie: the 90s adventure, horror fun-time classic, The Mummy. Em explains how the film came to be (thank-you Babe: Pig in the City) whilst Kim and Alice find out that love makes you do some crazy things, like unhinge your jaw and cover Egyptians in boils.

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Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton

Sources

• Blog post: Egypt at the Manchester Museum, “Representation and Reality in ‘The Mummy’ (1999)” by Matt Szafran    AND “The Cult of Imhotep” 
• Screenrant article: “How much of The Mummy 1999 is actually real?” 
• Egypt Exploration Society website
• Egypt Exploration Society 1926 Annual Report
• BBC podcast The Forum episode: “Imhotep, the man behind The Mummy” 
• Blog post: Clare College, University of Cambridge, “Egyptomania” by Toby Wilkinson 
• Article from Enterprise: The State of the Nation (Egypt): “A look back at Egypt’s roaring ‘20s” 
• Sky History article: “The curse of Tutankhamun and the mummy’s tomb” 

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