Guest Author - Lisa Shea

It's amazing how mummies still scare us thousands of years later. Brendan Fraser stars in this classic horror story. What mistakes can you spot?

Apparently US filmmakers think there are pyramids all over Africa. In the opening shot of Thebes, there are pyramids in the background. There are NOT pyramids near Thebes.

As in most horror movies, guns have extra, secret ammo. They have a revolver that holds six bullets - yet are able to fire much more than 6 times without reloading.

Egyptian priests were required to remove ALL hair as part of their priestly vows. Therefore, any priests we see in the movie should not have eyebrows.

I am always bugged by quicksand use in the movies. Quicksand is not some sort of super-sucking-sludge that drags massive things down into it. Quicksand is more like a thick mud. The problem is that you can't get out of it, and that you slowly sink into it. In fact some mythbuster trials have found that you tend to float in it, so the problem is that you starve to death vs you drowning.

Gold is super heavy - if the Amun-Ra book was really made of gold, they wouldn't be able to move it.

Really though, they didn't have books back then. They had scrolls. There should have been a scroll of knowledge, not a book form.

The balisong, or butterfly knife, didn't exist at the time of the story.

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