2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...

Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa ... to the Ptolemaic era 305 to 30 BCE in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, which ...

The trove includes not just the 13 gold tongues, but a mummy with golden fingernails ... Golden tongues are rarely found in ancient Egyptian tombs, perhaps at least partially due to looting ...