7 the best of films set in Egypt.

1 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (1955) EARLY Joan Collins movie about tombs and pyramids which boasted the advertising line: "Her blood stained every stone of the pyramid." English actor Jack Hawkins played Pharaoh Khufu.

2 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) CHARLTON Heston played Moses leading his people out of Egypt in director Cecil B DeMille film classic that including the parting of the Red Sea.

3 CLEOPATRA (1963) ELIZABETH Taylor and Richard Burton met and fell in love while making this epic about Egypt's famous queen. The costumes included a gown made from 24-carat gold cloth.

4 CARRY ON CLEO (1964) THE popular British comedy used many of the same film sets as Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra and credited William Shakespeare for the original idea.

5 Stargate (1994) THE pyramids and the Egyptian gods turned out to be of alien origin in this sci-fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader.

Mummy (1999) 6The ADVENTURE yarn that spawned a film series with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah battling the ancient Egyptian mummy of a dead priest.

7 Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) DIRECTOR Ridley Scott's version of the Moses story starring Christian Bale. It is an hour and 10 minutes shorter than Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, which has a running time of three hours and 40 minutes.