 Pantelis <unk> and Maria Wyke 's book The Ancient World in Silent Cinema provides additional nuance in noting the film 's erotic underpinnings in which the past is bridged to the present through marriage to the re @-@ animated Egyptian princess . The film has erroneously been claimed to be the earliest " Mummy " -themed film , but The Monster Book notes films including Robbing Cleopatra 's Tomb from 1899 and La <unk> du roi in 1909 as earlier examples . The film is presumed to be lost . 
