Egyptian Asps are small, black venomous snakes. Limbless like all snakes, asps carry a venom in them that is among one of the more deadly on Earth, causing excruciating pain to those bitten four minutes before the victim dies. One Egyptian asp was used by Meela Nais in order to obtain information from Jonathan Carnahan when Meela and her cultist accomplices mistook Jonathan for Rick O'Connell. In anger, Meela flung the snake at the real Rick O'Connell when he burst in the room; O'Connell caught the snake and threw it back at one cultist, who was bitten in an instant and killed.