Her father was a high priest of the sun god El-Gabal, and her older sister, Julia Maesa, also ended up being a grandmother to two future Roman emperors — Elagabalus and Severus Alexander.
The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.
Quirinius' last act as governor was to install a new high priest, Annas (Luke 3: 2; John 18: 13, 24). Annas took office in A.D. 7 and was forced to resign after Augustus' death in A.D. 14.
It stems from the foreign policy high priests of Make America Great Again types having thought this through before they came back to power and come to the conclusion that the post-Cold War era is over.
And in the middle scene, you see the opening of the mouth ceremony, where the new pharaoh, the high priest, is opening Todd's mouth, the mummy's mouth, to give him air, to give him voice.
You may remember that the ephod was something only the high priest was allowed to wear, so to make his own ephod was in direct violation of God's commands and an extreme act of arrogance.
By the time Pharaoh Ramesses XI came to the throne, his power and influence were so weak that Egypt was de-facto ruled by the highpriests of the Temple of Amun at Thebes.