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Hamunaptra (also known as the City of the Dead) is a fictional Egyptian city in Egypt and a location in The Mummy.
It is an ancient lost city that served for many centuries as the resting place for the Pharaohs of Egypt and their treasures. The vast necropolis contained precious artifacts and antiquities from the wealthiest of Egypt's Pharaohic totality, as well as their remains, and was guarded by the Pharaoh's elite guards, the Medjai in ancient times and for centuries into modern times.
Set in a remote area of the vast Sahara Desert, Hamunaptra held such high importance that none but the Medjai and the High Priest of Osiris could ever know its location. The city was fiercely guarded by the Medjai warriors and by warrior priests, with any that found the city silenced so as not to divulge its location; a burial within the city could only be attended by the High Priest of Osiris and his priests, accompanied by soldiers and slaves. Slaves were made to do the hardest work when in the city, digging graves, wherein they were promptly killed off by soldiers who were in turn murdered by the priests so that none might ever reveal the exact location. The City of the Dead had been established some time into the ascent of the New Kingdom, replacing the Pyramids of old as the resting place of the Pharaohs and their possessions and was host to a number of different booby-traps and deterrents to ward off plunderers.
In 1290 B.C., Imhotep and his priests of Osiris raced to Hamunaptra with Imhotep's love interest, Anck-Su-namun's corpse to resurrect her by taking the Black Book of the Dead from it's holy resting place. While performing a ritual, Imhotep was about to revive his lover, but was caught and arrested by Pharaoh Seti's elite bodyguards, the Medjai who followed him and his priests before he was about to complete the ritual. As punishment, All of Imhotep's priests were all sentenced to be mummified alive. While Imhotep himself, he was sentenced to endure the forgotten but infamous curse of legend called the Hom-Dai by having his tongue cut off, wrapped up like a mummy, placed in a coffin where he was last but not least, buried alive with a swarm of flesh-eating scarab beetles and was kept under strict surveillance by the Medjai.
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- Historically, there was no such place as Hamunaptra. Several necropoleis existed in Egypt, most notably at Saqqara, Giza, Amarna and Thebes, but these were associated with living cities (Memphis, Akhetaten, and Thebes, respectively), and their locations were, at least in ancient times, public knowledge.