The opposite is true with Evelyn. Throughout the film it seems she gets more of respect from men than she should. This is best exemplified when she bargains for O"Connel's life, in the prison, with the warden all by herself. In the 1920's women were still fighting for the right to vote, so it seems a bit of a stretch that a young women would have been in that position thinking, as Evelyn did, that she could win a mans freedom with money alone.
The architecture shown in the film is fairly close to what it was like in the past. The major area where the film differs from reality was in the ancient temples. They were shown to have incredibly complex systems of shafts, which is true, but the way the shaft were shown was inaccurate. In the film the shafts were usually walled by very rough stone work, in reality temples were well constructed with superb craftsmanship. Also the is a scene where they are chased by scarabs to a room with a whindy ramp at quite a high above the ground, rooms like this never existed in Egyptian temples, which usually had fairly simple square designs.
In the film many technological innovations were shown both from ancient times and from the 1920's. For the most part devices or machines seen in the 1920's were correct, except for a few inaccuracies involving guns being in use before they were actually produced. ancient Egyptian technology shown in the film had a few more inaccuracies. The booby traps in the ancient temple, pressurized salt spry, rotating trap doors, and a lever that closed all the doors and destroyed the City of the Dead, all were beyond the technology of the ancient Egyptians.
The costumes that were presented to use in the film were fairly simple in theme. Ancient Egyptians wore loin clothes, kilts or robes; modern Egyptians wore heavy solid coloured robes and turbans; while the Americans all seemed to dress like Indiana Jones. The ancient Egyptian dress is fairly accurate, as Egyptians did wear loin clothes, kilts and robes, the only discrepancy was the excessive use of gold, usually the clothes were simple white linen.
