ISIS's policy of destroying historic areas/artifacts in territory they conquer as possible sites of worship as part of this "no idols" beliefs backfires spectacularly when they unleash an infuriated army of Universal Horror Mummy/Tomb King expies bent on vengeance and world domination.
The trick would be to treat the idea
entirely seriously and write a serious technothriller about the diplomats and pressganged historians-turned-translators and archeologists trying to negotiate with the resurrected Pharaoh who possesses the secret of magical immortality and whose zombie armies now hold all the middle eastern territory with oil underneath it
and a superior alternative energy source.