Taking a torch into the room, Evelyn peered into one sarcophagus, which saw a rotted mummy pop out shrieking at her: the mummy was simply controlled by her brother Jonathan, who stopped by to see her. Bey stated that she only had her job because her deceased parents were the library's finest patrons, leaving Evelyn to straighten out the books, regardless of time or effort.Īt that moment, Evelyn heard a sound coming from a display area where mummies and sarcophagi were kept. Evelyn defended herself by citing her qualities of reading hieroglyphs and being able to catalog items properly, but Dr. Terence Bey, Evelyn's employer, came in furious at the damages done, asking ruefully why he had hired Evelyn to begin with. Falling forward, Evelyn knocked down the bookshelf that she was working on, which knocked over the next bookshelf, on and on until the books were all askew and the shelves on the floor. The ladder had ended up acting like a pair of stilts which left Evelyn to stand upright ten feet in the air.

One day, while filing out books in the 'S' section of the library, she came across a mis-shelved book on Tuthmois, and attempted to shelve the book under the right category by leaning over on the ladder that she was using. Having an employment in the Cairo Museum of Antiquit iesEvelyn worked as the museum's librarian, sorting out books for the Museum's collection. Evelyn, despite being experienced in Egyptology, was denied an application by the Bembridge scholars in England at first, as they had insisted that she lacked experience. Evelyn studied under professor Julian Winter at the University of Oxford in England and harbored a schoolgirl crush on him, a notion that caused her brother laughter years later.Īt some point in the 1920's, Evelyn and Jonathan's parents were killed in a plane crash attributed to a curse connected to a mummy that Evelyn's father had disturbed, and as a result, Evelyn and her brother received a yearly stipend of several hundred pounds, which Evelyn spent according to her need, while Jonathan wasted the vast majority on liquor.

At some point in her girlhood, Evelyn fell through the ice at a lake, resulting in a lifelong terror of falling through the ice. Evelyn's interest in Egypt and its ancient history commenced when she learned, in her youth, of the Book of Amun-Ra, the finding of which she marked as a sort of a life's pursuit. Evelyn Carnahan was, at first, a librarian that would go on to have many adventures in stopping an ancient evil from resurfacing onto the Earth.Įvelyn Carnahan was born in London, England, her father being a famed explorer that loved Egypt so much that he married an Egyptian woman who became the mother of Evelyn and Jonathan Carnahan.

Actress in the mummy movies