#The mummy returns full

The main difference seems to be demonstrated intelligence, but Imhotep was a High Priest and they were bodyguards with no reason to even speak in their brief appearance. They can see with no eyes (something Imhotep couldn't do) and are very fast and strong yet apparently don't cause calamities by their very presence and also probably don't have the 'suffering eternally' effect. Moreover, I'd say that the warrior mummies are in no way inferior to Imhotep's type of mummy. Impossible to say for sure, but Ardeth's fearful reaction implies such possibility.Had it had its way, would it have regenerated like Imhotep? Do these lesser mummies have the power to regenerate at all? During the battle in the bus, one of the mummy guards unhinges its mouth the same way Imhotep does when about to absorb someone's body fluids.

#The mummy returns full

The spell also gives her full memories, as when it's performed, Evy gets all her memories back too. Meela might know she is the reincarnation, but she only has vague memories like Evy does. Imhotep's ritual may have been to restore Anucksunamun completely, so that her persona completely eclipses Meela's. Even if Anucksunamun were reincarnated completely, Meela has made it to her age with a life of her own and memories that would make her a very different person to a woman born and raised in Ancient Egypt.The Egyptian concept of soul would also work (better) if not for the fact that Anksunamun's reincarnation is impossible according to Egyptian mythology, unless Imhotep managed to somehow prevent her soul from being judged in the first place. Thus, we got Meela, whose soul and body did not originally belong together.

But because Ancksunamun killed Seti I (and got herself almost brought back to life) her soul was forbidden from leaving the afterlife naturally.

At the risk of WMG, in the Mummy's universe reincarnation means that BOTH the body and the soul are given a new life in a same person, like Nefertiri and Eve.

This is, of course, unless we are going by the ancient Egyptian multiple soul concept. The soul of Meela and Ancksunamun should be the same one.

The first part makes sense but the whole point of reincarnation is the rebirth of the soul in a new physical body.

Then Imhotep brought her soul back, which either was combined with Meela's or Meela's soul got ejected from her body to make space. But (presumably) after the events of the 1st Mummy she started having visions of Ancksunamun's life, probably as a side effect of Ancksunamun's failed resurrection.

Meela had her own soul for her whole life.

Does this mean Meela literally does not have a soul until that moment in the movie, walking around in a basically empty state, or is it a play on the ancient Egyptian's idea that there were several souls, and the one Imhotep returns to her is the one containing all her forgotten past life memories?

Imhotep says Ancksunamun is reincarnated 'only in the body' and it takes a ritual to actually return her soul.

It could be as simple as the bracelet originally just showing special land areas and ancient Egyptians building, deliberately or not, things there on later dates, which the bracelet's visions reflected.

So how exactly does the bracelet work? Does the magical vision/projection leading to the oasis change with the times, adding new buildings as time goes on even if they didn´t exist when the bracelet itself was created?

The path to Ahm Shere includes landmarks such as Abu Simbel, Philae and Karnak, but all of these places were built thousands of years after the time of the Scorpion King, during the New Kingdom.

The warrior mummies were sealed inside an urn, so they were probably specifically made to respond only to specific commands/spells, which Imhotep knows.

If nothing else, the remaining cultists could have easily finished them off, those mummies were nothing special.

What happens to these mummies afterwards? Do they remain alive but trapped for the remainder of the movie, without anyone noticing? Do they terrorize London? Or is the effect of the ritual temporary when applied to other mummies that aren´t Imhotep? (He did have to reconstruct and resurrect his guards himself.).

During the ritual in the British Museum, several mummies are seen to come alive inside their exhibits.

Being made mortal and then killed and/or the different resurrection ritual freed Imhotep from the Hot-Dai curse and its side effects.Why Imhotep didn't come back this time with the Ten Plagues?