The Rise of Apocalypse is a four-issue limited series published in 1996 by Marvel Comics.

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

The child is raised and named En Sabah Nur by the tribe's leader, Baal, who teaches the boy survival of the fittest.

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.

Seeking revenge, En Sabah Nur travels to Rama-Tut's city where he hides as a slave and falls in love with Nephri, the sister of Ozymandias, Tut's general.