Review: More re Mummies - Secrets of the Pharaohs

Brisbane Times

Egyptologist Professor Colin Hope, a Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Honorary Associate with Museum Victoria, says we have much in common with this ancient culture which was largely built around a belief in life after death. "They seem to have been concerned about the same things that we're concerned about," he says. "About humans' place in the universe, what are we about, why are we here? So they're speculating on the things that we're speculating on."

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs is a short film that's educational and entertaining in equal parts, though some creative license may have been taken with regard to historical accuracy.

The giant IMAX screen and computer technology puts you in the middle of iconic locations like the Valley of the Kings, Luxor and the temple of Abu Simbel, and lets you get up creepily close and personal to some rarely viewed mummies - including Rameses II himself.