The Mummy: How Colonialism Created a Monster

Tracking how mummified remains became the monsters of film and literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries through colonial and Orientalist processes. Although the timeline covers events from The Old Kingdom to the present day, it is not intended as an extensive Ancient Egyptian history and only includes these periods to impress their scale and highlight some individuals who appear in Western media later on. Please note, this timeline includes sources that use insensitive and racist language Where the exact date of an event or period is unknown it is filled in as January the 1st and will be marked with (??/??/Year). For example (??/??/1802).