Thebes 2,134 BC
Thebes, The City of the living and the crown jewel of Seti the first, Home to Imhotep, Pharoahs High Priest, Keeper of the Dead, and from Merary his younger sister, he would risk everything to protect her.
Home of Zahra, the eldest daughter of Seti I and future queen of egypt.
Zahra and her younger sister Nefertiri, approach a balcony to watch the palace guards train.
"Can you believe that one day you would rule all this?" Nefertiri looks at his sister.
"When it reigns, the first thing that changes some laws ... especially about the treatment of slaves, especially with children." Zahra continues to watch the army.
"I know ... you will be the best queen of Egypt." Nefertiri smiles.
Birthplace of Anck-su-namon, the Pharaohs Mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her.
Anck-su-namun walked into her chambers and immediately spotted her lovers priests, once she reached him Imhotep pulled Anck-su-namun into a kiss, both knew if they were ever caught they would be executed.
But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself.
What neither of them knew was that, on the other side of the palace, Zahra and Nefertiri were watching, both were about to call the guards, but for some reason they do not and still see it.
Imhoteps priests go to shut the door and they almost do, when suddenly they are banged open again this time by the Pharaoh himself.
"What are you doing here?" Seti asks confused.
When he did not receive an immediate response, he went to the rooms. The priests move quickly again to close the door and close it when Pharaoh removes the curtains. Anck-Su-Namun was standing by the statue of a cat, looking down. Standing in front of her now, her eyes slowly looked up to meet his.
"Who has touched you?" Seti pointed to her smeared black painted that ran down her arm.
Glancing at it, her eyes widen as she looked back up at Seti before looking behind him. Watching where her eyes moved, he turned to see his priest.
"Imhotep?" He asked confused and shock. Imhotep quickly unsheathed the Pharaoh's sword. "My priest?"
Zahra recoils in horror at seeing her father in danger, while Nefertiri trembles in terror.
"Medjai, my father needs you" Nefertiti shouted down pointing across so they knew where to go and the Medjai run quickly to Anck-su-namun's room.
Anck-Su-Namun raises a dagger to stab her in the back of the pharaoh, horrifying the princesses.
"FATHER!" Zahra runs to help him.
Nefertiri continues to watch as his father screams in pain as Imhotep gives him another stab with his sword.
"NOOO!" Nefertiri screams and leans too far forward and falls off the balcony.
"NEFERTIRI!" Zahra watches as her sister falls and runs to try to reach her, but it was too late. " NEFERTIRI!" crying in horror looking at her sister's body.
She again hears the screams of her father and quickly runs to Anck-su-namun's room to try to save him.
As the two lovers watched Seti dying on the floor, the sound of footsteps echoed through the room.
"Pharaoh's bodyguards." Imhotep warned.
"You must go! Save yourself!" Anck-Su-Namun begged him.
"No." He refused.
"You are the only one who can resurrect me... besides, you must protect Merary."
Imhotep turns to see her when he hears his sister name. Both their heads turned as the doors flew open and the bodyguards entered the chambers. His priests grabbed his arms, trying to pull him away.
"I won't leave you! Let me go! You shall live again!" Imhotep promises as he is finally pulled from her sight.
Anck-Su-Namun turned to look at the Medjai approaching her, but they stopped to see Pharaoh's lifeless body.
"My body is no longer his temple." Anck-Su-Namun raises her dagger to stab himself in the stomach, but a hand stops her and turns to meet Zahra. "Princess?" Surprised
"Your body was never a temple." Zahra takes away the dagger and cuts her neck.
Anck-Su-Namun tries to stop the blood and dies slowly in front of Zahra and Medjai, what nobody knew is that Imhotep saw everything.
Princess Zahra ordered the search for High Priest Imhotep for her complicity in the murder of Pharaoh, she believed that death is not enough for both, so she took the golden book of the living and read it by sending the soul of Anck-su- namun to the underworld.
Zahra leaves the book of the living, leaves the room where a twenty-year-old child cries in front of the body of Seti and Nefertiri.
"Ramses." Zahra approaches him.
"We are alone now." Ramses does not look at him. "First mom ... and now ..."
"We will be fine." Zahra grabs him by the shoulder.
Ramses nods and leaves the room followed by two guards as he wanted to be in his room alone.
Zahra cried in front of the body of Seti and Nefertiri, they would be mummified when the greats priests came to do the necessary rituals for them to move to the next life, still could not believe that in a single day he would lose her father and sister.
She hears a noise behind her and turns to meet Imhotep just as he places a dagger on her left torso, she tried to scream but he covers her mouth.
"Say hello to Pharaoh for me." Imhotep whispers in her ear.
Imhotep moves the dagger away and Zahra falls gravely wounded, observes how he moves away, followed by his priests that some carried a sarcophagus.
To resurrect Anck-su-namun, Imhotep and his priests broke into her crypt and stole her body; they raced deep into the desert to Hamunaptra, city of the dead, ancient burial site for the sons of the Pharaohs and resting place for the wealth of Egypt. For his love, Imhotep dared the Gods anger by going deep into the city where he took the black book of the dead from it holy resting place.
The body of Anck-su-namun was lying on the altar and the canopic vials containing his vital organs were placed on the altar beside him. The priests were in a circle around the altar, singing.
Anck-su-namuns soul had been sent to the dark underworld, her vital organs removed and placed in 5 sacred canopic jars
Imhotep begins to read the book and from a well a spirit emerges towards the altar and sinks into the body of Anck-su-namun.
The woman's eyes opened and she began to pant and tremble, Imhotep knew he did not have much time.
Anck-su-namuns soul had come back from the dead
Imhotep raises the dagger but an arrow wounds his arm and releases it, and Pharaoh's bodyguards grab him, turns and looks at Zahra, too weak with the bow in her hand, she used her last strength in the shot.
"Stop him!" Ramses orders.
But Pharaoh's bodyguards had followed Imhotep and stopped him before the ritual could be completed.
The soul of Anck-su-namun leaves his body and returns to the underworld in the sight of all.
"No!"
Zahra kneels because she was too weak and one of the guards holds her up.
"Zahra!" Ramses scared approaches her. "Zahra, are you okay?"
Ramses was the one who found his sister wounded in front of the bodies of his father and Nefertiri, but she did not want to be treated, wanted to stop Imhotep and did not want to leave the world of the living without having captured him and pay for his crimes.
"This ... this happens to me because I lower my guard." Zahra smiles weakly and looks at Imhotep with hatred. "At least ... my father and Nefertiri will be avenged." She complains of pain
"Do not worry, Zahra, we have to go back to Thebas."
"No ... it's not too late to save me, that's why ... Listen to me Ramses, take good care of the kingdom... follow your heart and do not let the power control you." Zahra smiles and closes her eyes and begins to fall.
"Zahra?" Ramses sees his sister's lifeless body fall. "ZAHRA!" Holding her.
Ramses tries to wake up his sister, but seeing that she died he began to cry while hugging her body, in a single day he lost his family. Pharaoh's guards are silent at the memory of the princess and the entire royal family who died that day.
Ramses looks at Imhotep with hatred and makes a sign and two guards appear with an 18-year-old girl who was scared.
"Merary!" Imhotep frightened tries to break free.
"Former high priest, Imhotep, you are accused of having relations with Anck-su-namun the future wife of Pharaoh, also by the murders of Pharaoh Seti l and the murder of the princesses Zahra and Nefertiri, do you deny these accusations? " Ramses looks at him with hate
"I did not kill Princess Nefertiri."
"Yes you did."
"Imhotep". Merary scared looks at him.
"You murdered my father and my sisters." Ramses says in a cold voice. "You brought this pain to your sister ... she will not receive the punishment that you and your priests will have ... but you deserve to suffer the same as me."
"N… No." Imhotep cries.
"No, no ... Imhotep!" Merary cries in terror.
Ramses stabs the dagger in Merary's chest and falls dead in front of everyone and a gold necklace with the image of the goddess Hathor.
"MERARY!" Imhotep screams as he looks at his sister's body.
Imhotep his priests were condemned and to be mummified alive
Throughout the Sah-net-jer the cries and supplications of the priests were heard while they were mummified.
As for Imothep he was condemned to endure the Hom-Dai.
Imhotep was supported by four guards, while one embalmer eliminated the length of Imhotep with a pair of pinzs and another cut it with a very sharp knife.
The worst of all ancientcurses. One so horrible, it had never before been bestowed.
Imhotep is now being bandaged, and lowered into a coffin, fighting, completely covered. A man in a jackal headdress approaches the coffin with a large pot. Then the man has reached the coffin and then poured the contents into the coffin. Hundreds and hundreds of Beetles are wandering and running all over Imhotep. While Imhotep fights, the Medjai puts the lid of the coffin on top and closes it with a small puzzle box.
He was to remain sealed inside his sarcophagus, the undead for all eternity.
The Medjai are now bearing Imhotep at the base of Anubis.
The Med-jai would never allow him to be released for he would arise a walking disease, a plague for all mankind, an unholy flesh-eater with the strength of ages, power over the sands and the glory of invincibility.
Zahra means "Flower" and Merary means "Beloved"