Hamunaptra
Hamunaptra - City of the Dead! The place where Imhotep was buried beneath the statue of Anubis!
A dream came true this January - I found the City of the Dead!!!
A lot of parts of the two Mummy films where filmed
here - in 1998 and 2000, nearby the city of Erfoud, where the
staff has lived in hotels. I found in the internet, that the
place where they filmed Hamunaptra was an old volcano, in more or
less 3 miles distance to Erfoud. So I searched satellite maps and
made a map for searching the place, because I was going to make a
journey to Morocco - and also to Erfoud. Two weeks in Marocco, 10
days on camel, and at the end we arrived in the desert dunes of
Erg Chebbi. Our guide tried to help me to find that place, and it
was in Rissani, where he learned, that the two Mummy films were
actually filmed nearby. On 23rd of January 2008 we drove to that
place and found it: Hamunapatra!!! It was unbelievable! So
amazing!!! 
Nowadays,
the volcano is part of a dessert rallye for Morocco women. In the
volcano there were a lot of mural constructions which were not
erecting by the filming team but in old times by the Portuguese -
for protection. The Mummy team had to clean that place, so there
was very little what remains: just a few old nails... But what a
perfect place for filming the Mummy scenes. Also the outside was
used for filming. So here a lot of pictures - and truely, I had
to dress up as a Medjai warrior just guarding Hamunaptra. 
