THE MUMMY

An ancient order of High Priests has been secretly waiting in readiness for a prophesy to be fulfilled. As part of their quest the religious cult obtain cloning technology to be able to reincarnate the most powerful Egyptian ruler that ever lived, for which they must obtain a sample of the mummy's DNA and enact a sacred Egyptian ceremony involving the book of the dead.

Cleopatra committed suicide with a broken heart. She poisoned herself with an asp ......... having vowed to return for her love Mark Anthony .......

But the location of Queen Cleopatra's tomb has remained a mystery for 2050 years, until a German archaeologist stumbles upon it in the desert. The German scientist rushes to tell the world of his find but reveals the location of his find to the wrong official, and is brutally murdered for his troubles by a ruthless assassin working for the ancient order of High Priests. The cult ceremonially recover the preserved remains of their sacred queen.

Soon after a series of strange events take place that shake the stability of the Middle East, when John Storm is called in to assist an investigation in his capacity as genealogical anthropologist .......

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw is translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day". Another translation would be "Book of emerging forth into the Light". The text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife.

The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus. Some of the spells included were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BCE. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BCE). A number of the spells which made up the Book continued to be inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi, as had always been the spells from which they originated. The Book of the Dead was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased.

There was no single or canonical Book of the Dead. The surviving papyri contain a varying selection of religious and magical texts and vary considerably in their illustration. Some people seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife.

SCENE	–	DESCRIPTION	–	LOCATION
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Prologue	–		–
Chapter 1	–	SKY News –	–
Chapter 2	–	EXPEDITION -	–
Chapter 3	–	John Storm (JS) lecture	–
Chapter 4	–		–
Chapter 5	–	John Storm hired for expertise	–
Chapter 6	–	Secret destination revealed	–
Chapter 7	–	Provisioning and preparations	–
Chapter 8	–		–
Chapter 9	–	Cast off	–
Chapter 10	–	Satellite survey	–
Chapter 11	–	Sand storm	–
Chapter 12	–	.	–
Chapter 13	–		–
Chapter 14	–	Secret map previously undisclosed	–
Chapter 15	–		–
Chapter 16	–	Sky News: Green & Charley	–
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Chapter 21	–		–
Chapter 22	–		–
Chapter 23	–		–
Chapter 24	–	Shrine	–
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Chapter 28	–		–
Chapter 29	–	Curse	–
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Chapter 35	–		–
Epilogue	–		–

CHARACTER		DESCRIPTION		ACTOR

John Storm	–	Adventurer	–
Dan Hawk	–	Electronics Wizard	–
George Franks	–	Solicitor based in Sydney	–
Lord Huntington	–	Explorer and historian	–
Scott Tremaine	–	Treasure hunter	–
Sir Rodney Baskerville	–	Professor of History	–
Steve Green	–	Freelance Reporter	–
Charley Temple	–	Camerawoman	–
Jill Bird	–	BBC Newsnight Presenter	–
Brian Bassett	–	Editor the Independent	–
Tom Hudson	–	Sky News Editor	–
Baron	-	German archaeologist	-
	-	High Priest	-
	-	High Priest assassin	-
	-	Egyptian minister of antiquities	-

Cleopatra VII Philopator (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; Late 69 B.C.E. – August 12, 30 B.C.E.), is known to history simply as Cleopatra. She was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra did learn to speak Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis.

Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler. As pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name.

After Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C.E., she aligned with Mark Antony in opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). With Antony, she bore the twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus. Her unions with her brothers produced no children. After losing the Battle of Actium to Octavian's forces, Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra followed suit, according to tradition killing herself by means of an asp bite on August 12, 30 B.C.E.. She was briefly outlived by Caesarion, who was declared pharaoh by his supporters, but he was soon killed on Octavian's orders. Egypt became the Roman province of Aegyptus.

To this day, Cleopatra remains a popular figure in Western culture. Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations of her story in literature and other media, including William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, Jules Massenet's opera Cléopâtre and the film Cleopatra (1963). In most depictions, Cleopatra is portrayed as a great beauty, and her successive conquests of the world's most powerful men are taken as proof of her aesthetic and sexual appeal. In his Pensées, philosopher Blaise Pascal contends, evidently speaking ironically because a large nose has symbolized dominance in different periods of history, that Cleopatra's classically beautiful profile changed world history: "Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

The site of their mausoleum is uncertain, though the Egyptian Antiquities Service believes it is in or near the temple of Taposiris Magna, southwest of Alexandria.

Cleopatra's son by Caesar, Caesarion, was proclaimed pharaoh by the Egyptians, after Alexandria fell to Octavian. Caesarion was captured and killed, his fate reportedly sealed when one of Octavian's advisers paraphrased Homer: "It is bad to have too many Caesars." This ended not just the Hellenistic line of Egyptian pharaohs, but the line of all Egyptian pharaohs. The three children of Cleopatra and Antony were spared and taken back to Rome where they were taken care of by Antony's wife, Octavia Minor. The daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was married through arrangements of Octavian to Juba II of Mauretania.

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