About 3000 years ago we have records of an Egyptian prince who was doing archeological surveys of older Egyptian buildings, which were already over 1000 years old. When the first pyramid was being built, there were still Mammoths in Eurasia.

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It’s a small point, but I was really annoyed by a line in the Cruise Mummy that was like “No one has opened this tomb for 2000 years.” 2000 years ago Egypt had already been Hellenized by Alexander and was in the process of being Romanized.

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I remember watching GODS OF EGYPT on an airplane. The only pitch I could imagine for it was someone watching "Stargate" and thinking "this is okay, but what if we removed everything that is interesting and original?"

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The *only* way you ever could get one is by funding a giant team of artists and historians, because we’ve never had one before and so it must be a new creation. But people like Musk don’t respect either of those groups, so.

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Howard Hawks, bless his heart, had a go at Egypt, but if ever there was a film that looms at another culture through the lens of its own, it's this one. The IMDB Goofs page is a treat.

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