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[The Mummy (1999)] Why would the Medjai punish Imhotep with a curse that can make him all-powerful?

So in the movie, the narrator exposits that the Medjai intervene in Imhotep's attempt to resurrect the Pharaoh's mistress and stop him just before he can complete the ritual, and as punishment, they subject him to the curse of the Hom-Dai, which the narrator said had never been done before because the curse is so cruel that Imhotep was the only one up to that point to be sentenced to such a harsh punishment. Makes sense. After all the man did commit regicide and attempt to use black magic on sacred ground. But then the narrator exposits that the Medjai take extra precautions to ensure that his sarcophagus is secure so as to ensure that he cannot be risen from the dead, because if he is, he will bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt, and be nigh-invincible.

Why on earth would they sentence Imhotep to a punishment where resurrecting him from the dead would mean he'd come back with godly powers to try to resurrect the Pharaoh's mistress again and then go on to conquer the Earth? Who's bright idea was it that this would be a great punishment for the most heinous of crimes? How could they ever be certain that they could prevent him from being resurrected for the rest of eternity?
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The ritual makes them live forever, which to Egyptians was a curse beyond all others. No eternity in Afterlife, no peace, never to see the ones they love again. Just darkness. This is, assuming, no ignorant fools dare speak the ancient spells that can bring them back to life. In which case their presence is such an abomination they bring ruin to the world.

The Medjai of ancient times never expected people so foolish to speak words they don't understand the gravity of.