Evelyn searches for the famous Book of the Living, a book made of pure gold. Against Ardeth's advice to leave the city, the two expeditions continue to excavate. The expeditions are attacked by the Medjai, led by the warrior Ardeth Bay. Rick leads Evelyn and her party to the city, where the group encounters a band of American treasure hunters guided by Rick's cowardly colleague Beni Gabor. Rick makes a deal with Evelyn to lead them there if they release him from prison. Jonathan reveals he stole the box from an American adventurer, Rick O'Connell, who discovered the city three years earlier while in the French Foreign Legion. In 1926, Jonathan Carnahan presents his sister, Evelyn, a Cairo librarian and aspiring Egyptologist, with an intricate box and map, which leads to Hamunaptra. Imhotep is sealed away in a sarcophagus at the feet of a statue of the Egyptian god Anubis and kept under strict surveillance by the Medjai to prevent Imhotep's return. Imhotep's priests are all mummified alive, while Imhotep himself is sentenced to suffer the Hom Dai, the worst of Egyptian curses, buried alive with flesh-eating scarab beetles. Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and travel to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, but the resurrection ritual is stopped by Seti's bodyguards, the Medjai. Imhotep flees, while Anck-su-Namun kills herself, intending for Imhotep to resurrect her. When the Pharaoh discovers the affair, Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun assassinate him. In Thebes, Egypt, 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep has a love affair with Anck-su-Namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.
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