In 3067 BC, the List of characters in The Mummy series#Mathayus (The Scorpion King) leads his army on a campaign to conquer the known world. Seven years later, his army is defeated while attacking Thebes, Egypt and exiled to the desert of Ahm Shere, where his men die of heat exhaustion. After vowing to give Anubis his soul for the power to defeat his enemies, an oasis forms to hide the Scorpion King's pyramid and he receives a legion of jackal warriors. The Army of Anubis sweeps across Egypt, but once their task is finished, Anubis claims the Scorpion King's soul and his army.