"We only have seven days before the Scorpion King arises"

An upset Ardeth Bay  in The Mummy Returns.  He  has just spotted that Alex has put the fated bracelet on!

The first thing which needs explaining about the Scorpion King was did actually exist. This was  in Pre-dynastic Egypt and he is supposed to have been the first pharaoh of Egypt to unite the north and south of the country. He  goes by a number of names in the history books one of which is "King Scorpion".  He didn’t have anything to do with Anubis, curses or anything else like that though, it is just a filmmaker’s fantasy I think, but its a nice story.

This is a picture of part of an illustration on a Mace Head which is held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in the UK. It shows King Scorpion cutting the foundations for a new building using a hoe. To the right of his head you can just see the scorpion hieroglyph which gives him his name in history.

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