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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