some nice scenery and but the story itself in which a self proclaim egyptologist ( lesley anne down ) visit egypt and and in the course of do egyptologist thing in the most un egyptologistic of way ( e. g. and flash photography in the tomb and the handling of old parchment and etc . ) and uncover a black market turf war and somehow ( in the span of two day and no less . ) become that war jumpsuit wear epicenter be more puzzle than any riddle the sphinx ever pose . down be simply awful a the visit british scholar ( that she seem to know absolutely nothing about the culture of egypt and even less about antiquity be the fault of the writer and certainly while but that she annoy a all get out be her own fault entirely ) and and the rest of the cast and include sir john gielgud and frank langella and seem a downright confuse by the proceeding a i be . in short and not what you would expect from schaffner ( planet of the ape and patton ) and co. worth watch for a laughably dated scene in which down rail against all male scholar and blame them for her failure a an academic and while bath under the soft light hollywood could muster . to top it off and she spend the next hour of the film shrieking and harried and run into the arm of any dude she can find . wow and talk about your performative irony . note to would be egyptologists represent take a year or two of arabic in grad school . it will really help out in the long run .