Egypt: From Herodotus to Hollywood
Lecture by Lukáš Kubín + screening of the film The Mummy (1999)
(The lecture will be in Czech language and the film in English with Czech subtitles)

What if everything we think we know about ancient Egypt—its tombs, treasures, and even curses—is not just history, but a mirror reflecting our own desire for eternity? Did you know that in Victorian England, mummies were used as medicine and even as fertilizer?

Egypt gave birth to the concept of eternity. Its monuments, gods, and myths became the foundation of our cultural imagination about power, death, and miracles. This civilization has survived for millennia and still fascinates us today with its belief in the afterlife, its ability to build on a scale of time and space, and its obsession with leaving a mark that will last forever.

Lukáš Kubín – Orientalist, historian, traveler, Japanologist.

What can you look forward to?
👉 We will explore why pyramids are not just tombs, but the first human attempt to immortalize memory.
🎉 We will reveal how mummies became a Victorian party attraction and how mummies are made.
👩‍🔬Unknown stories of women who changed Egyptology.
🌹 You will find out whether mummies smell good or bad.
💀 How the obsession with mummies began—and why it continues to this day.
🤔 And we will discuss whether we should believe in the mythical "curse of the pharaohs" or admire the human desire for immortality.