Cairo is the capital city in Egypt, and the setting for the events that transpired in 1925, when the world almost saw the cursed mummy Imhotep arise from death and spread plagues.
City
A developing city in 1925, Cairo was steadily becoming more and more influenced by European visitors and their customs, as the city saw many tourists, travellers, soldiers and colonists from England, France and other European countries. Train lines were making their way through the city, along with phone lines and routes of travel for visitors, and in place of pride was Fort Brydon, the centre of Great Britain's embassy in Cairo. Glassblowers, beggars, peddlers, and assorted native townspeople made up the majority of Cairo's population, while tourists were a common sight in most areas of the city. While Cairo did have several shady areas frequented by lowlife rabble, it also had some areas that were deemed respectable, many of these locales being upper-market European hotels and businesses.
Curse Spreading
Evelyn Carnahan of the Cairo Museum was a resident in Cairo that found the means to journey to Hamanaptra, a fabled necropolis that was told to be rich in treasures; upon discovering the means to find the necropolis, Evelyn left Cairo with her brother Jonathan, their guide Rick O'Connell, and one Warden Gad Hassan, on an expedition to find the ruins and return to Cairo later. Also leaving Cairo to find Hamanaptra were three Americans, along with their desert guide (named Beni Gabor), consultant, and a group of native diggers, the goal among all heading to the ruins to find treasures and artifacts and to return to Cairo with their wealth.
The expedition was met with failure as countless men were killed in the ruins and as the remaining expeditionaries left Hamanaptra once they had been confronted with the lifting of an ancient curse within the city: an ancient mummy known as Imhotep had been unearthed at the city and fixed with the goal of finding the men that had a part in his release so as to kill them and regenerate his own rotting form with their organs and fluids.
Once in Cairo, the mummy had continued his search for the men that he would use as his regenerative sources, aided and abetted by Beni Gabor in finding the men. As the mummy resided in Cairo, his curses began to take effect: the waters of the Nile were now blood, as were all the drinks. A worse plague came when a storm blew in that released burning embers and hail coated in fire, releasing all of this on the city of Cairo. Among the places damaged were Fort Brydon, and some of the giant minarets of the buildings in Cairo.
Within some time, the hail and fire had ebbed, and a new calm set in, for the sun had been eclipsed squarely as it was reaching its highest point. Darkness setting over the land: Imhotep had, by now, taken the life of Dr. Allen Chamberlin, the American treasure hunters' consultant, and with the life of the doctor, he took another sacred canopic jar, as well as the black Book of the Dead. These new relics under his possession, Imhotep opened his mouth widely to an inhuman length, releasing great swarms of biting flies, as Imhotep calmly walked away.