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Ahkmenrah is an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who, with his tablet, came to the Museum in 1952, he is portrayed by Rami Malek.

Akmenrah was dug up near the Nile River in Egypt, in 1952, during the Nile Expedition. His mummy, along with his 24-carat gold tablet, were brought to the Egyptology Department of Cambridge University to be displayed. Afterwards, he was brought to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The tablet brought everything to life that night. He is guarded by two 20-foot-tall Jackal Guards.

His tablet was given to him by his parents some 3,000 years ago, entrusting him with one his people\'s most prized posessions.

Ahkmenrah is released by Larry when he and Nick get stuck in the Pharaoh\'s tomb and are being threatened by Ahkmenrah\'s Jackal Guards. He speaks English as he was on display at the Egyptology Department in Cambridge University.

Near the end of the film he uses his tablet to command the Exhibits back inside. 

He makes a brief appearence at the start but has a bigger part at the end where he is giving a lecture on the Tablet to visitors of the Museum. During the film, it is revealed that he had an older brother named Kahmunrah. It\'s also revealed that his parents favored him more than his older brother to which Kahmunrah told Larry Daley that their parents gave Ahkmenrah "the best of everything", including the throne, which Kahmunrah was supposed to inherit first. After Ahkmenrah\'s death, presumably caused by his jealous brother, Kahmunrah ascended to the throne. It can be assumed that his reign had not lasted long due to his sadistic nature.

Ahkmenrah and the rest of the Museum residents start acting strangely due to the Tablet losing its magic about being only active at night. Larry Daley and the Museum residents are temporarily sent to a museum in London to renew the Tablet\'s magic. At the end of this film, the Tablet remains in London in order for the magic to exist forever. During this film, both of Ahkmenrah\'s parents can be seen in the Egyptian Exhibit.

Ahkmenrah wasn\'t an actual Pharaoh in Egyptian History and not visibly based on any specific Pharaoh.

The first film mentions that his tomb was discovered and brought to New York in 1956, however the third film shows that Robert and Cecil discovered his tomb in 1938.

In an early version of the script for Battle of the Smithsonian, during a conversation with Larry, Kahmunrah reveals that he murdered Ahkmenrah. He would have been an Egyptian counterpart of William Shakespeare\'s "Hamlet" character, Claudius if this information was in the final film.

In Secret of the Tomb, there is a reference about the Passover story from the Book of Exodus when Larry mentions he is Jewish to Ahkmenrah\'s parents.