Before Baal dies as well, he tells Nur that he is destined for greater things. Nur's tribe is destroyed by Tut's armies. During the same time, Egypt is ruled by the Pharaoh Rama-Tut who, in actuality, is the time traveller Kang the Conqueror, who arrived from the future to claim En Sabah Nur as his heir, because the boy will grow up to become one of the most powerful mutants and notorious villains in history Apocalypse. The child is raised and named En Sabah Nur by the tribe's leader, Baal, who teaches the boy survival of the fittest.

5,000 years ago, a baby is found in the Egyptian desert by a band of nomad raiders.