The scroll from which this was copied was stolen 10 years ago, together with the mummy of the High Priest Imhotep.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:38:21.160 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- A scroll. Part of which was transcribed when it was first found. Here is the transcription.
- I cannot read the writing of a period so remote.
- But you read the name of Anck-es-en-Amon on that piece of pottery.
- That was of the 18th Dynasty.
- These are Predynastic ideographs.
- Most interesting. May I see that scroll, Sir Joseph?
- So.
- I have something else to show you. A photograph.
- Why do you show all this to me?
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Actors: Boris Karloff (Imhotep), Zita Johann (Helen Grosvenor), David Manners (Frank Whemple), Arthur Byron (Sir Joseph Whemple)
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