
The Mystery of Mummies (Dr. Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Ramesses the Great - The Black Magic Harem
The mummy of Ramesses the third has had an outsized influence on pop culture depiction of mummies. He was apparently attacked by several people at once because part of his foot is cut off with an axe also. So I think it looks like a really grizzly mummy. And this is the prototype for the stalking mummy who's going to kill everybody.
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Transcript

Mummies have long been an object of fascination, but how they were made has been a mysterious trade secret of the "men of Anubis." Jimmy Akin continues his conversation with Dr. Bob Brier discuss what he's learned about mummies as one of the world's foremost experts.
