The narrator continued about how the dead mistress was resurrected during a secret ritualistic ceremony, but returned to the underworld when interrupted mid-way: 'To resurrect Anck-su-namun, Imhotep and his priests broke into her crypt and stole her body. Only you can resurrect me.' As he was dragged away by his priests to the balcony, he promised: 'You shall live again! I will resurrect you!' When the bodyguards reached her, she told them: 'My body is no longer his temple!' and suicidally drove a dagger into her own midsection. As Pharaoh's bodyguards approached, Anck-su-namun told her lover: 'You must go. When Pharaoh Seti discovered and confronted his traitorous high priest who was engaged in an affair with her, she plunged a dagger into his back, and Imhotep finished the monarch off with a sword. But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself.' Aristocratic, elderly ruling Pharaoh Seti I (Aharon Ipale) unexpectedly entered the temple of Osiris, where bald, muscular high-priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) was the 'keeper of the dead.' The Pharaoh's exclusive thong-wearing mistress Anck-su-namun (Patricia Velasquez), with netting over her almost-naked body, entered the temple where she passionately and lustfully embraced Imhotep, who grasped her arm and smeared her body paint. In voice-over, a narrator (Imhotep himself) introduced the setting and its three main characters: 'Thebes, City of the Living, crown jewel of Pharaoh Seti the First, home of Imhotep, Pharaoh's high priest, keeper of the dead, birthplace of Anck-su-namun.

In the opening, the Univeral Studios logo, an earthly globe, transformed into a hot burning sun above the pyramids in Egypt at Thebes.

The mummy movies series