How did a sarcophagus from a family of great Pharaohs come to be buried so far from home? Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), a British archeologist, arrives to explain that this is the tomb of Princess Ahmanet, whose name was erased from Egyptian history for the crimes of patricide and fratricide.
He is not an Egyptologist, but Morton recognizes this as a stupendous archeological discovery. The bombing in the desert uncovers an ancient Egyptian tomb. Interestingly, the movie begins when Nick Morton (Tom Cruise), a hunter of archeological treasure in Mesopotamia, now posing as an American soldier in post invasion Iraq, orders an air strike. ‘Set’ is most particularly the God of foreigners in this movie Americans like the Tom Cruise character who bring chaos to the Middle East and unleash the hidden prophecy that has kept this part of the world under control, at least till the disastrous invasion of Iraq. So, in this latest edition concerning the mummification tradition of that great civilization, the God ‘Set’ – Lord of the desert, of storms, violence, chaos and foreigners – reigns supreme.
The deities were all closely connected with the Pharaoh, who was, in popular belief and political power, the supreme God. Gods were an important instrument to the unification of ancient Egypt.