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The Entire Timeline Of The Mummy Franchise Explained

Looper | January 21, 2026



From the Scorpion King’s origins to Imhotep to the tomb of a Chinese emperor, the movie series that kicked off with 1999’s “The Mummy” explored quite a convoluted history over the course of its run. The series jumps around in time quite a bit through the three “Mummy” movies and five (yes, five) films in the spinoff “Scorpion King” series, so it may be a little hard to know in what order everything happens.

With that in mind, we’ve put everything from all eight movies in chronological order so you can know for sure. This is the entire timeline of “The Mummy” franchise explained.

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The Black Scorpions | 0:00
Rise and fall of Sargon | 1:14
The last of the Akkadians | 1:55
The loss of the queen | 3:12
The crown of Lord Alcaman | 3:55
The Fang of Anubis | 4:42
The Battle of Thebes | 5:25
Imhotep’s affair | 6:26
Origins of the Terracotta Army | 7:21
The Battle of Hamunaptra | 8:23
The return of Imhotep | 9:01
The Year of the Scorpion | 9:59
Alex takes the baton | 11:06

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  4. @agentzurg3592

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    The Scorpion King we see in Mummy Returns is actually his grandson, Mathayus III who strayed from his grandfather’s legacy as Benevolent Ruler to bloodthirsty tyrant and fell into the path of dark magic…….Even Sommers confirmed this

  6. @MouadAddams

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    5:26 wrong, the scorpion king 3,4 and 5 are happening in an other timeline where he will never became evil, so in the first timeline he became a conqueror just after the 2002's movie
    You forgot :
    – The scorpion king : rise of the Akkadian on ps2
    – the scorpion king : sword of Osiris on Gameboy Advance
    – the mummy animated serie
    – the revenge of the scorpion king (book).
    – the mummy (2017)

  11. @Gaster15

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    Fun fact the director Stephen summers of the mummy franchise stated that the scorpion king featured in the mummy returns isn’t the Mathayus seen in the movies but rather his descendent, possible his grandson as the director believed a man as honourable and heroic as Mathayus could never grow to as evil as the scorpion king in the mummy returns.

  14. @christopherbadeaux3889

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    Nesberek isn't Tala's sister, and you'd forgot to include the Mummy/Scorpion King tie-in video games and comics in there as well. Also, that Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns is actually Mathayus' bloodthirsty grandson.

  18. @armageddon_gaming

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    I found this video because I had to figure out how well connected the scorpion king was to the mummy. I just watched all 5 scorpion king movies for the first time and I knew the two had to be connected when I saw the Book of the Dead. I grew up watching the mummy and would recognize that book anywhere!

  20. @sebastjankoracin7774

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    I have no idea where they got the name Han from he is clearly qin shi huangdi not liu bang who founded Han dynasty i mean even at the beginning you can see the map of the warring states before the rise of qin not at its fall

  22. @sergioferrero46

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    Man, I'm kind of fond of them because they're remotely connected to The Mummy saga and I've seen them all at least once (multiple times in the case of the original), but the Scorpion King movies are terrible, not to mention the actor switches😂😂😂

  24. @elvisbjones

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    Only thing that should’ve changed to keep it somewhat in line with real history. If you’re going to use such a well known pharaoh as seti I it should have started in 1279 bce when he actually died seti only started his rule in 1290

  32. @travisbrewer5391

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    You left out that after The curse of the Dragon Emperor Johnathan went to South America to find a place with “no mummies,” and a few years later mummies were discovered amongst Incan artifacts.

  40. @patriautism

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    I think Gen z likes this like we Millennials and Gen x liked Indiana Jones… They are just great to us no matter what. I mean I know not every 80's movie I think a classic actually is to new eyes. But to us it holds a place in our hearts because we grew up watching what we could when they were on TV or renting them and just loving them, just like Gen Z grew up watching these on cable and ended up falling in love with them.

  45. @johnkovacs9722

    January 21, 2026 at 3:50 am

    Loved the movies, however your pronunciation of SEVERAL City's and people is atrocious they SAY THE NAME in the movie, Hamanuptra you said correctly twice then said it wrong every time after that, Anuck Suna Mon is A NUCK not ANACK, I seriously don't understand how you get this crap wrong when its spoken in the movie your referencing facepalm

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