Let’s hear it for ambitious kids! A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling.

A custom image of Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan and Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell in The Mummy against a background of orange-tinted hieroglyphics Credit: Image via Zanda Rice Ancient Egypt is a ...