The Mummy... as the hero?

An Egyptology professor is secretly a mummy! A plot idea from comments on The Mary Sue which is very much not what happens in the new film. 

Teaching the history you’ve lived through is kind of a Highlander thing, but it could be a lot of fun.

Alan Moore and Steve Bissette's not-Thor comic Horus was a professor who became the eponymous god... the original World Of Darkness: Mummy went pretty Highlander with the showing off historical knowledge... and this image from D20 Modern always hinted at that kind of story, perhaps in a more villainous way.