It sounds to me you're talking about "zombies" more as mindless beings controlled by another source or something like in the 1932 film White Zombie, where the female lead is put into a "zombie trance" with some Haitian voodoo and doesn't consume flesh or is technically undead. That's all fine, but you can't really call that a "classic zombie", because those are not the characteristics that define classic zombies. George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead defines classic zombies and he hits two of the big marks - flesh-eating and undead. The zombie virus is something we've cultivated more recently with zombie lore but still has become a generally-accepted characteristic within the realm of zombies. You saying "classic" isn't really accurate because again, Romero's zombies are definitively considered classic and ground-breaking for their time, and have been highly influential in defining the cinematic zombie. "Origin" would be more appropriate for the Haitian voodoo reference.
To me the issue here is that instead of having a general undead class, you have a zombie class and are trying to shunt mummies in there underneath a bullet point when really, there are plenty of reasons here laid out as to why that does not line up properly. Which is fine if that is what you prefer in your fictional worlds, but as you can see, several of us have differing opinions on that.
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