I think the best part about MidJourney is ramming two ideas together to see what would happen. Let’s see what would happen if the ancient Egyptian culture existed today. As usual, let’s start with a prompt.

Prompt: Ancient Egyptian culture in today’s modern society

Not bad, but we can do better. We have to be a lot more specific if we’re going to mash two ideas together.

Prompt: What would ancient Egyptian society look like if they existed in our modern world

This doesn’t bring us closer to what we want. Perhaps if we go the reverse of the way we’re phrasing it.

Prompt: Our modern world but ancient Egyptians still exist.

For this, we have to be a lot more specific. It kind of makes sense. What I want is for the modern world to be ancient Egyptians themed. However, the word ancient and modern clash. It looks like MidJourney doesn’t know how to handle the clash. Let’s try a more in-depth prompt.

Prompt: A modern cafe, people are working on laptops, texting, there are ancient Egyptians there too, The egyptians are also working on laptops and texting. The cafe is Egyptian themed.

Version 2 is exactly what I’m going for. However, we need to be more specific. I want more people in the shot, as well as I want people to be happy. Sometimes if you don’t put the word happy in the prompt, people look sad.

Prompt: A modern cafe, people are working on laptops, texting, there are ancient Egyptians there too, The Egyptians are also working on laptops and texting. The cafe is Egyptian themed, there are people ordering coffee, the shot has about 10 people in it, People are happy

We’re getting closer. What I really want this image to be is in new york. Let’s add that in as well as let’s change the aspect ratio using –ar: 2:1

Prompt: A modern cafe in New York, people are working on laptops, texting, there are ancient Egyptians there too, The Egyptians are also working on laptops and texting. The cafe is Egyptian themed, there are people ordering coffee, the shot has about 10 people in it, People are happy –ar 2:1

This is starting to get somewhere. Version 2 is the best so let’s go ahead and make some variations. Also, you can see that the 2:1 aspect ratio really opened up the scene. I also really like version 1.

I think version 2 is the best one. Let’s upscale this and find out what we get. I also like how the servers are ancient Egyptian gods. Perhaps they are robots in this sci-fi world.

This turned out okay. There could have been much more ancient egyptians in the scene.