Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb

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| name = Cléopâtre

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| director = Georges Méliès

| producer = Georges Méliès

| writer = Georges Méliès

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| starring = Georges Méliès
Jeanne d'Alcy

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| cinematography = Georges Méliès

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| released = {{Film date|1899}}

| runtime = 2 minutes

| country = France

| language = Silent film

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Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb ({{langx|fr|Cléopâtre}}, literally Cleopatra) is an 1899 silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. One of the earliest horror films ever made, it is about resurrecting the mummy of Cleopatra. In it, a man chops the mummy of Cleopatra into pieces, and then "produces a woman from a smoking brazier."{{cite book |last= Guran |first= Paula |editor-last=Joshi |editor-first=S. T. |title=Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares (Volume 1) |publisher=Greenwood Press |date=2007 |pages=389 |chapter=Chapter 13: The Mummy |isbn=978-0313337802}}

While today director Méliès is more known for his iconic film A Trip to the Moon, it was this film which caught the attention of producer Charles Urban, who released the film in the United States (under the title Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb; its British release was simply titled Cleopatra's Tomb) and subsequently distributed many of Méliès other films. It's numbered 175–176 in the catalogue.

This is a lost film. A print was reported to have been discovered in France on 22 September 2005,{{cite web |title=Lost 106-Year-Old Movie Discovered |url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/studio-briefing-september-22nd-2005 |publisher=MovieWeb |date=22 September 2005 |access-date=28 December 2013 |archive-date=30 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234637/http://www.movieweb.com/news/studio-briefing-september-22nd-2005 |url-status=dead }} but it turned out to be a different film involving tomb robbery.{{cite web|title=Trivia for Cleopatra's Tomb (1899)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000234/trivia |publisher=IMDb |date=29 September 2014 |access-date=29 September 2014}}{{Unreliable source?|reason=Are trivia sections on IMDb reliable?|date=June 2019}}