Login Register The Mummy  New this week Factual error: In the
scene where the Americans find the chest containing the canopic
jars, the egyptologist reads the text from left to right.
However, the text actually begins from the middle and goes to
both directions: one sentence goes from right to left and the
other from left to right (this was very common in Ancient Egypt
as hieroglyphs could be written in both directions) So, as he
started from the left, the highly trained egyptologist was
actually reading the inscription backwards.   The Mummy mistake
picture  Continuity mistake: In the scene where Imhotep's
priests first pop up, Jonathan is on Rick's left, and the guy in
black is on his right. But in that split-second shot that shows
them starting to fire, they are on the opposite sides. [In the
director's commentary he does mention this but says it's because
they had to cut some scenes out due to time, still a mistake but
has a reason.]  The Mummy mistake picture  Continuity mistake:
In the scene in the libr