In Popular Culture
- In modern times, the historical figure lent his name to Imhotep, the title character of the 1932 film The Mummy and its 1999 remake along with a sequel.
- "Imhotep" is the title of a video game.
- Imhotep features in the British comedy television series Look Around You. He is depicted as an invisible Moai.
- In 2010 Marvel Comics series S.H.I.E.L.D., Imhotep was the man who formed the very first version of the titular intelligence organisation.
- In the 2006 French spy comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, imhotep is used in an indiscriminate manner to mean all kinds of things.
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