In the Hollywood film The Mummy, a valiant warrior led a vast army to attack Thebes. But Thebes was too heavily fortified, and its people resisted to the death. Even after seven years of war, he still failed to conquer that "City of the Scepter."
During the retreat, his army fell one after another in the desert until only he remained. As he lay dying, the warrior swore an oath to Anubis, promising to offer up his soul if he could gain the power to defeat Thebes.
Later, he did indeed receive an answer. He was granted an immortal army and the city of Ahm Shere. Yet on the day his army captured Thebes, Anubis claimed the warrior's soul as agreed. That warrior was the Scorpion King, and his army returned underground with him.
There really had been a Scorpion King in Egyptian history. He unified Upper and Lower Egypt, but his army did not vanish with his victory as it did in the film.
The equally fictional Imhotep was merely a scribe. He became famous for designing pyramids, not as the high priest from the film who flirted with the pharaoh's favored concubine, wielded magic, and was exceptionally skilled in combat.
After Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, if the Directory had kept a better watch over the rear, he might not have needed to cross the Alps a second time to attack Italy. Naturally, he would have had no excuse to flee that hell called Egypt and return to France to stage the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
Sometimes, when someone was too clever and too capable among a crowd, they inevitably grew arrogant and ambitious.
Napoleon later not only crowned himself Emperor at The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in Paris, but also crowned himself Emperor of Italy in Milan. The crown he