The timing of the announcement was interesting - it came on the 87th anniversary of the day Tut’s tomb was first opened in 1923.

In the nearly 90 years since the tomb of the young king was first discovered and then opened, revealing its fabulous riches to the world, imagination, rumor and speculation about Tut’s mummy and his tomb, and mummies in general, have run rampant.

In fact, a check of the Internet Movie Database shows nearly 75 movies, television movies and TV series either titled or partially titled “The Mummy,” and ranging in date from 1911 to 2009.

Those productions range from the most famous of “The Mummy” movies, made in 1932 and starring Boris Karloff, to such unlikely titles as “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy,” “Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy” (OK, so that one’s not an Egyptian mummy), “The Kung Fu Mummy,” and, one of the earliest, from 1912, “The Mummy and the Cowpuncher.”