The Egyptian city of Hamnata is a cemetery of pharaohs of all generations. It is said that there are a large number of rare treasures left by the pharaoh. There are continuous people going to the nuggets, but few survived.Hamnata became a mysterious place for this and was named "City of the Undead".
Librarian Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) accidentally gets a map of Hamnata. She is so excited that she decides to go there with her brother to get an archaeological experience. They find the former survivor O'Connor (Brendan Fraser), and the three of them go together.
After a thrilling journey, Evelyn and her party and others finally arrived at Hamnata, but the most terrifying thing happened: three thousand years ago, the high priest Imoton, who was Sethi I, committed a crime, was cursed and mummified, sealed in a stone coffin, but his soul was accidentally awakened. Imoton, who possessed great magic power, was about to baptize Egypt, bringing endless disasters to the world...
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