This 40-minute IMAX movie, which Stephanie, Sarah, and I saw at the downtown Main Street Science Center, mixed beautiful filming of Egyptians both with very elaborate reenactments of ancient Egypt and mummification, 19th century artifact prospecting and film of modern-day research. We follow both the pharoahs and their efforts to insure/facilitate their immortality through mummification, the efforts of 19th-Century European and Egyptian antiquities expert both to save and capture ancient mummies and the efforts of modern-day researchers to use research on mummies to reveal how to fight malaria. The latter included mummifying - the Egyptian way - a 1990s body (weird). Sarah likes mummies, and Stephanie studied the Middle East in college and has Middle Eastern friends, and the three of us saw an ancient Egypt exhibit - including a mummy - in Minneapolis five years ago, and two years ago spent time in the Middle Eastern part (including eating!) of Dearborn, Michigan. Good documentary/dramatization.
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