During the scene where the people are chanting, the supporting artists began to change what they were chanting from the correct Egyptian phrase, to "Ohwhatanarseyouare" during rehearsals. Before long, they were all chanting it, and did so on the final take. Nobody on the crew noticed during filming, and it therefore remains in the film.
Brendan Fraser passed out while filming because the noose around his neck was too tight.
The fort in Cairo is called Fort Brydon. In The Jungle Book, also directed by 'Sommers, Stephen (I)' , Sam Neill played "Colonel Brydon."
Blixa Bargeld, of the German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, is credited as having provided the "spirit voices".
"Imhotep" was actually the name of the architect who developed the first pyramids in ancient Egypt. His ability was such that he was later said to have descended from the gods.
The character Ardeth Bey was originally scripted to die at the end of the film. This was changed by director Stephen Sommers.
With the exception of a loin cloth and a few pieces of jewelry, Patricia Velazquez's costume consists entirely of body paint which took 14 hours to apply.
Ardeth Bey is the name of a sworn protector of mankind from the mummy Imhotep. However, in The Mummy (1932), Ardeth Bey is the alter-ego of the mummy Imhotep when he attempts to pass for a modern Egyptian.
When Beni is translating Imhotep's words, he mistranslates one word as "forever" and is corrected by Evelyn, who says, "For all eternity, idiot!" The same mistranslation is made on the hieroglyphs in Stargate (1994), where Dr. Daniel Jackson crosses out "forever and ever" on the blackboard and corrects it to read "for all time".
When King Tutankhamen's tomb was found on 4 November 1922 the person in charge was Lord George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon. Along with him was his daughter Lady Evelyn. Rachel Weisz's character is named Evelyn Carnahan. Originally, her character was meant to be Evelyn Carnarvon, and her and her brother were to be the children of the "cursed" Lord Herbert. The only evidence of this left in the film is in the line where Evelyn tells O'Connell that her father was a "very, very famous explorer." The Mummy novelization goes into a bit more detail on her backstory.
An Egyptologist was brought in to phonetically render what Ancient Egyptian might have sounded like for the dialogue.
In order to practice the frightened reaction made by Arnold Vosloo to Brendan Fraser with a cat, he threw a teddy bear at Vosloo which, according to Fraser, caused tremendous laughter between the two at the hilarity of being frightened at a teddy bear.
The prison scene was shot entirely at an apartment complex in Marrakech.
The library disaster was done in one take. It would have taken an entire day to re-shoot if a mistake had been made.
John Sayles did an uncredited rewrite.
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