Xander sighed, his hands holding his book bag strap over his shoulder. "Ah another day. Another museum. Another chance at bringing the apocalypse." Buffy resisted the urge to rolls her eyes before speaking to him. "Just don't bring another mummy back to life." Willow smiled as she walked with them. "No promises." Giles cleaned his glasses as they now stood at the entrance of the museum.
Xander spoke. "Think there's gold in there?" Giles put his glasses back on. "Yes, Xander there is and I ask you kindly not to touch it. We're here to learn, not to bring about the end of the world." "But that always seems to happen." Willow said as they started heading inside.
Once they got the Egyptian exhibit Willow brightened, beating Giles to the educational punch. "This Exhibit was donated almost entirely by the O'Connells. Starting in the late 1920s they went on so many adventures and found so many artifacts. This one, here. Oh is it really?" Willow nearly ran over. Giles smiled, following her. Buffy and Xander walked a little slower. Buffy huffed. "There go the brainiacs. Think we're gonna be invisible for a while."
Willow looked in the display case which was holding the Book Of The Dead. "That's the book of the dead. It's actually an ironic name since it supposed to being people back from the dead. It's the book of The Living that takes life away. Oh and there's the statue of Anubis! And that's the scepter of Osiris!" Giles placed a hand on her shoulder. "Willow, please speak calmly or else Buffy and Xander's head my blow." She looked embarrassed for a moment. "Anubis was the God of funerals and death. Often associated with the mummification process." Xander walked, seeing a mummy laying down in one of the displays. "Ew."
Willow walked over to him. "There mummification process is actually fascinating for there time. For such an early civilization they figured out how to preserve a body for funeral services. One of the things they did is they would take a red hot poker, stick it up there nose and pull the brains out through the nostril." Xander swallowed, forcing a smile, not wanting to offend his friend. "Fascinating." He recovered. "Talk about being brainless? Right Buff?" He looked at Buffy who gave him a blank stare. He nodded. "Tough crowd." They continued, Giles and Willow going back and forth between displays, unknown to them they were being watched.
Xander stopped at an Egyptian Painting. "Whoa who is that hottie?" It showed as slender woman with dark hair and little black lines going down her body, looking almost dress like as she was reaching out to a large man, a servant or something by the look but he was large built and bald. Giles spoke about this one.
"Supposedly it's the Pharaoh Seti the first, his future wife, Anuk-Su-Namun. She was quite lovely and skilled in fighting. Although she was set to marry Seti the first, her heart belonged to another. Imhotep. The adviser of the Pharaoh. They had an affair and were caught. She killed herself before they could take her and he got the worst punishment they had: The Hum Di. They cut out his tounge, mummified him alive and placed him in sarcophagus filled with scarabs that would eat him alive for years."
He turned, seeing Xander looking horrified, Buffy looking sad and Willow smiling. Sometimes he wondered how they get along at all. There all so different. Giles continued, wanting to lighten the mood from the dark story. "His body wasn't found until about 1929 by aspiring architect Evelyn Carnnihan and her guide, Rick O'Connell. Ah here's a picture here." He walked a little further down, pointing to the picture of Rick,Evelyn, her brother Jonathan and a few others. Giles pointed to each one. Willow smiled. "Rick was a cutie. A classic save-the-damsel-in-distress type." Buffy rolled her eyes at that then suddenly everything was spinning around them so fast. They were going through a warp hole. Xander yelled. "Ahh! Buffy! What's happening?!" "I don't know!" Before Giles to got a hold of anyone they landed ungracefully in sand.
Once everything stopped they started coughing. Giles cleaned the sand out of his glasses and tie. "Everyone alright? Willow? Xander? Buffy?" Buffy spoke, cleaning sand out of her hair. "Here." Xander coughed. "Here Giles." Willow was looking around. "Where are we?" It was sunny and so sandy. Willow looked a little further, seeing some people a distance away. "Hey! I think I see some people!" They all got up, following the spot of people.
What was people was actually several people and an excavation site for a tomb. Willow stopped them. "That's Rick. And Evelyn from the picture." Buffy looked and sure enough she was right. They were getting ready to go into the tomb. "Oh my god. We're in 1929."