In this story a high priest called Harmachis, the main protagonist of the story, is buried alive by his priests for failing to remain pure to Isis (Pearson 230). The idea of being buried alive appears in Cleopatra (1889), a novel by H. In the Universal horror films, and the Hammer remake in 1959, the mummy is buried alive, this punishment making the removal of vital organs unnecessary. This was because the process involved the removal of vital organs, including the brain and the eyes, the loss of which would have made a revived mummy somewhat ineffective. Due to the mummification process, it was also unlikely that a re-animated mummy would be able to function. The mummified body was for use in the after-life, not for re-use on this earth it served as the link between the physical self and the ka, the spirit. There are no records in archaeology that the ancient Egyptians ever considered such a possibility.
The other famous monsters either have a literary source beginning with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and ending with Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera in 1911, or they have a mythical origin such as the vampire or werewolf.ĢMythology regarding re-animated mummies is also a nineteenth-century invention. 1One reason why mummy films suffer in comparison to other films of the classic horror genre is that they have, as Kim Newman describes it, no “foundation text” (Newman 225).
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