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Evelyn:I've already dated the map. It's almost 3,000 years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here, well, it's Hamunaptra.Dr. Bey:Dear God, don't be ridiculous. We're scholars, not treasure hunters. Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab storytellers to amuse Greek and Roman tourists.Evelyn:Yes! Yes! I know all the silly blather about the city being protected by the curse of a mummy nonsense, but my research has led me to believe that the city itself may have actually existed.Jonathan:Are we talking about the Hamunaptra?Evelyn:Yes. The City of the Dead. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt.Jonathan:Yes, yes, in-in-in-in a big, underground treasure chamber.Dr. Bey:Heh!Jonathan:Oh, come on. Everybody knows the story. The entire necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command. A flick of a switch, and the whole place would disappear beneath the sand dunes, taking the treasure with it.Dr. Bey:As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum.Dr. Bey: Oh, my goodness! Look at that!Jonathan: You've burnt it! You've burned off the part with the lost city.Dr. Bey:It's for the best, I'm sure. Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it. Most have never returned