Why We Fear Mummies… And Should We?

Mummies have been around for a long, long time. Only in relatively recent history, though, have they been something to fear.

And of course, I use the term “fear” extremely lightly. I’d wager that far less than zombies or kraken or any other mythical monstrosity, the Mummy isn’t something many kids have nightmares about. It took a fairly drastic rebooting of the mythos in 1999 to give the story any real sense of dread; and at that point, the creature was simply upgraded to a “vengeful god” with very little remaining from the original source material.

But what actually is the source material? Where did the Mummy myth come from?


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