In the popular classic movie "The Mummy" in the past, the villain who enjoyed the highest popularity, Imhotep.
The priest Imhotep in the film falls into a forbidden love affair with Ansunam, the woman of the pharaoh. When Pharaoh learned of this, he couldn't help but be angry and inflicted a terrible insect devouring punishment on the priests who betrayed him.
Pharaoh put Imhotep alive in a coffin along with the cockchafer that gnawed human flesh, and gnawed his whole body in pain.
Thousands of years later, the Pharaoh's curse was lifted by the mistakes of the explorers, and Imhotep was resurrected, putting the world in danger.
Imhotep, who thought he was just an imaginary character who appeared in the movie, actually existed in history.
His real name was Yin Hetian, he was born in 2650 BC and lived in Egypt until 2600. He was the regent of the Egyptian pharaoh and the high priest who served the sun god.
In fact, the life and deeds of Yin Hetian are very different from the villain Imhotep in the movie. It is recorded that Yin Hetian was an excellent man with many talents and many professions.
Inhotan was the earliest architect and physician, as well as the palace administrator, astronomer, poet, and philosopher.
During the Old Kingdom of Egypt, during the excavation of the pyramid of Djoser, a relic was found, and the whereabouts of Yin and Tiantian began to be known.
The relic found was the stone tablet of the pharaoh, where the contents of the seal and the Tanan were inscribed. The pedal lists the occupations and roles held by Yin and Tian, and praises how good Yin and Tian.
One example, 'the crowd of people who wanted to receive Inhotan treatment with excellent medical strength kept his sanctuary busy'.
After the death of such a famous Yin and Tan for his medical skills, Egypt and some Greek regions even worshipped Yin Ho Tan as the god of healing.
Its status is exactly the same as that of Asclepius, the "god of healing" in Greco-Roman mythology.
Even more surprising, Inhyptan also designed the earliest stepped pyramids in ancient Egypt.
Usually the pyramids we are familiar with have a four-corner cone shape, but the Zoeserl pyramid made by Yin and Tian, has a stepped shape.
Ancient Egypt used mud to lay bricks when building buildings, and Yin and Tan, the first to develop a method of cutting stones and then stacking them, built pyramids.
After his death, Inhotan was not only revered as the god of healing, but also revered as the god of crop and disease healing, along with Nefton, one of the three supreme gods of Memphis.
Neither pharaohs nor pharaohs were so deified, and it was not common in ancient Egypt.
Even if he dies like this, he still enjoys the power of the gods, how can he be portrayed as such a vicious villain in the movie?
It began with a misunderstanding.
In 1922, a cultural heritage that shocked the world was discovered in the valley of the royal family of Egypt. That is the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh who did not rob the tomb at all.
This tomb is the famous tomb of Tutankhamun. After that, the people involved in the excavation died one by one, and people began to talk about the so-called Tutankhamun cursing the tomb robbers.
Various strange tales were circulated, and one of the popular stories of the time was that Tutankhamun's coffin was written with the words "Those who hinder the world after Pharaoh's death will be cursed in the name of Inhotan".
Tutankhamun
Such interesting gossip news made Yin and Tian, a prominent scholar in Egypt, and the image of the great prime minister Yin and Tian, gradually degenerated into demons in Western Europe. As a result, the names of villains in Hollywood movies that became successful at the worldwide box office were also named after this theme.
In this way, Yin Hetian went from learning and healing to being blinded by love, betraying the pharaoh he served, and becoming an evil man who wanted to destroy the world.
After Yin and Tian's death, he did not forget that after thousands of years, he could not stop the love protagonist Ansunam.
Ansunam
Ansunam is also an actual figure in ancient Egypt. Her name was actually Angzesenamon. According to the English pronunciation and subtitle errors in the movie The Mummy, which we are familiar with, it is famous for "Ansunam".
But the historical Ankhsenamon has nothing to do with India and Hotan.
If India and Khotan lived around the 27th century BC, then Ankhsenamon was a figure from the 14th century BC, and there is a huge time gap between the two.
From actual history, Ankhsenamon was a very unfortunate woman who was far from romance.
Angelsenamon
Anhesenamun was the third daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt and the beautiful princess Nefertiti.
Ankhsenamon was known for her beauty since childhood. Because of this beauty, in modern times and Cleopatra, Nefertiti was praised as the three beauties of Egypt.
But one day, Ankhsenamon's mother, Nefertiti, lost the favor of the king and withdrew from the position of princess.
The princess who filled the vacancy at that time was Akhenaten's biological daughter Angelsenamun.
In fact, in ancient Egypt, in order to maintain the blood of the royal family, consanguineous marriage was prevalent, so it was quite common.
After the marriage, Ankhsenamon had a daughter between her father and her father. But not long after, Akhenaten, who was in poor health, died, and his illegitimate son Smonkara ascended the throne as pharaoh.
But the new pharaoh died a year after his accession to the throne and had to greet another pharaoh. That was Ankhsenamon's half-brother Tutankhamun.
She then married again with her brother, who became Pharaoh, and began a second life as a princess.
But Tutankhamun became a pharaoh at a young age, so he was nothing more than a puppet at the mercy of his ministers.
Ankhsenamon was pregnant with Tutankhamun's two children, but both were stillborn, so there are no heirs.
The misfortune of Pharaoh and the princess did not end there. Tutankhamun, who struggled to support himself in a precarious situation, was killed for unknown reasons.
Of course, Princess Ankhsenamon believed that her husband had been killed by the ministers. Angzenamon was grief-stricken and filled with suspicion and hatred for the ministers, but the old ministers scrambled to marry Princess Angsenamun.
Because Tutankhamun, who died at a young age, had no children, if he married Princess Anhesenamon, he could ascend to the position of the next pharaoh.
Ankhsenamon desperately wanted to avoid marrying a man who might have killed her husband.
Eventually, Ankhsenamon wrote a letter to King Sitate, a neighboring country of Egypt.
The condition was that if he sent a prince who married him, he would become a pharaoh.
The purpose is to use the once powerful country of Sitate to contain ministers like enemies and strengthen their position.
King Sitate was very happy when he received this letter and sent Prince Zhannanza to Egypt.
I thought that I would marry a neighboring prince according to the widow's wishes, but an unexpected event happened.
After Prince Zanaza crossed the Egyptian border, he was killed by unknown forces.
In this way, the final struggle is frustrated, and the third wedding of Ankhsenamon's sadness is about to take place.
It was with his grandfather, who was also Tutankhamun's reign, as the prime minister and the most powerful minister Ayi as her husband.
Ayi, who married the princess, ascended the throne of Pharaoh, and there is no record of Ankhsenamon after that. Most scholars believe that Ayi, who became pharaoh, may have eliminated his wife and granddaughter, who had lost her usefulness.
In this way, she was used by politics and repeatedly married, but she eventually disappeared into the dust of history without knowing it.