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The Tablet of Ahkmenrah.

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The Tablet in the tomb of Ahkmenrah.

The Tablet of Ahkmenrah was Ahkmenrah's most prized possession. It was given to him by his father so that the family may 'live on past death together.'

Description[]

The Tablet was a creation of Merenkahre and his servants to be a gift for Ahkmenrah. Its powers can be restored in the light of the full moon as it's connected to the Egyptian Moon God Khonshu.

In the 1950s, the Museum acquired the tablet from the temple of the Pharaoh. The tablet has the power to bring all of the exhibits, whether human or animal, to life during the night, but they must return to their places at sunrise. Anyone or anything who is outside of the museum after the sun rises will turn to dust. It is one of the night watchman's duties to make sure that no one (or thing) gets out of the museum. In the sequel, it is revealed reviving dead or inanimate objects is one of the tablet's powers and can be used to open a Gateway to the Underworld since its secondary function is a keypad.

Films[]

Night at the Museum[]

In the first film, Teddy Roosevelt shows Larry the tablet on his first night as a night guard. He explains to Larry that it has made everything in the museum come to life every night ever since it was placed there. Nights later, Larry shows his son, Nick, the museum at night and how everything comes to life, but nothings happens. Larry then finds out that the tablet has been stolen by Cecil and the other guards and rushes off with Nick to retrieve it.

Battle of the Smithsonian[]

Two years later, many of the exhibits are being shipped to the Smithsonian as archives as the museum being upgraded by holograms of them. Dexter secretly takes the tablet with them, not wanting to be a nonliving museum archive exhibit. As a result, the tablet brings the entire Smithsonian Museum to life. Larry travels to D.C. to retrieve the tablet and does battle with Ahkmenrah's older brother, Kahmunrah.

Discovering the combination on the tablet has been changed, Kahmunrah coerces Larry into finding out the new combination by trapping his cowboy friend Jedediah in an hourglass. He later learns the combination after Capone interrogates a bobble-headed Albert Einstein (it is pi), and uses it to open to the gate to Duat (the Egyptian underworld), unleashing an army of falcon-headed warriors. These are sent back to the underworld by the Abraham Lincoln Statue. Using the tablet's power, Amelia opens the gate and Larry banishes Kahmunrah into Duat and Amelia closes the door.

Secret of the Tomb[]

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The Tablet of Ahkmenrah slowly corroding.

The tablet is shown to be corroding, as revealed by Ahkmenrah to Larry. When it corrodes, the exhibits completely forget everything (except who they're supposed to be) temporarily, and begin to turn into their exhibit forms as they would during the day. As a result, they infiltrate the London Museum at night to find out how to restore it.

It is later revealed by Ahkmenrah's parents Merenkahre and Shepseheret that it needs moonlight to restore itself. Shortly after realizing this, Sir Lancelot believes it is the Holy Grail, and steals it from the main group, setting out for Camelot, which is revealed to be just a play. After cornering Lancelot, it is almost too late, as the tablet completely corrodes, they are almost in their day forms, and Dexter temporarily dies. However, eventually, after finally receiving it, Larry shines it in the moonlight, restoring the tablet and having the exhibits return to normal. They eventually decide to bring it to the London Museum to have it stay in it's normal condition forever. The Tablet of Ahkmenrah is later shown in Tilly's possession during a special traveling tour that she is overseeing and shows Dr. McPhee it's magic with the exhibits coming to life.

Kahmunrah Rises Again[]

In Kahmunrah Rises Again, Ahkmenrah and his Tablet are randomly back at the museum with no reason or mention of it from any other character, seeing as it’s suppose to be in London. Even then, Kahmunrah has somehow come back to life, leading to him stealing the tablet and bringing a different museum, the Metropolis Art Museum, to life. Still, the tablet is taken back by the gang at the end of the movie.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Video Game)[]

DS Port[]

In the DS version of the video game based off the second movie, it is mentioned that the tablet was shipped with the rest of the exhibits, being there to where Larry is able to grab it when he is in the Smithsonian. While there, the tablet’s magic actives and Kahmunrah takes the tablet, talking about his plan with the world before breaking it, leading to both the 7 ingots on the tablet as well as magic dust to be spread around a few museums.

Throughout the game, Larry has the tablet with him, going through a handful of museums to collect the different ingots to put the tablet back together. The tablet here has 6 different powers the player can use while the last one is used to go into the underworld. By the end of the Modern Art Gallery Museum, the Tablet will be fully put together to where Larry can go into the underworld to defeat Kahmunrah.

Wii/PC/Xbox 360[]

In this version of the video game, Ahkmenrah explains to Larry the magic that the tablet holds, based off the ingots, like a tutorial. Only a few of the ingots' powers are shown, seeing as Ahkmenrah doesn't actually know what the last one does. When Larry leaves the museum, Dexter comes in and takes the tablet like he does in the movie, leading Larry to go and grab it at the Federal Archives. When he does, the tablet's powers active and Kahmunrah comes in, taking the tablet from Larry and explains his plan to him. This leads to Kahmunrah speaking to the tablet to cast a spell, in which will lead to the underworld being opened to him, before he breaks the tablet, leading 8 outta the 9 ingots to break off of it. He gives Al Capone 3 ingots, Ivan the Terrible 2, and Napoleon 1, before telling them to hide them from prying eyes.

Throughout the game, Larry will collect all the ingots for the tablet, going from different museums to do so to gain it's full power while repairing it. We also learn that from Cleopatra, the spell that Kahmunrah had cast can be reversed by placing the last ingot in the tablet backwards, leading to his defeat.

Trivia[]

  • In the original script for the first film:[1]
    • The tablet is instead described as a puzzle whose panels are inscribed with words and phrases that can be moved and rotated to form different sentences. Depending on the sentence formed, the puzzle would have different effects on those associated with Ahkmenrah's tomb (i.e. the museum), such as giving the temple's guards absolute authority over the exhibits or other guards and allowing them to give irresistible commands.
      • In the deleted scenes for Night at the Museum, the tablet is instead a puzzle, more bulky and large in size compared to how it is in the movie. It also glows blue and has smaller other colors also glow after a command is said instead of glowing yellow.[2]
    • The tablet was discovered in the (erroneously dated) "Nile Expedition of 1927", and arrived at the museum sometime after 1915 and around 1930, instead of in 1957.
  • The tablet was exposed briefly to moonlight during the first film, but not enough to restore its magic fully.
  • In Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb, Khonsu is mentioned as the god of the tablet.
    • A fan translation of the tablet's hieroglyphs revealed that the inscriptions on the tablet's panels, as depicted in the third film at least, are names of various Egyptian gods.[3] These names align with those spoken by a disembodied voice when the tablet activates each night in the first film's original script.[1]
  • In both versions of the video game, which is based off the 2nd movie, the tablet is broken into pieces, by the base of it and the ingots.
    • In the Wii/PC/Xbox 360 version of the game, the ingots' order does not match the way it was in the beginning of the game. This is most likely due to how Larry had to collect the ingots as the game processed.

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