Checking With The Experts
Despite that inaccuracy, Stephen Sommers actually did work hard to keep things as close to real history as he could. He even consulted the UCLA Institute of Archaeology! What a dedicated director.
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Special Life-Size Set
Since the film was shot in Morocco, they needed to reconstruct scenes there. As far as the city of the dead, Hamunaptra, goes, they built a life-size scene of it on a Moroccan volcano crater just for the movie.