Mummies with golden tongues found in Egypt
Miscellaneous / / April 05, 2023
With their help, the dead were supposed to speak in the afterlife.
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported about the discovery of a burial site on the territory of Kuweisin, a city in northern Egypt. There, archaeologists have found tombs dating back to different periods of time, some of which contained mummies with golden tongues.
Mustafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, clarified that these are "golden chips" in the form of human tongues in the mouths of some of the discovered mummies. Also, bones covered with gold were found in a number of skeletons, and other remains were surrounded by golden scarabs and lotus flowers - in addition to a number of funerary amulets and ceramic vessels that were used in the process mummification.
It is believed that the tongue-shaped amulet was placed in the mouth to give speech to the deceased in the afterlife. Archaeologists have previously met this is the language of a mummy in the ancient city of Taposiris Magna.
According to Dr. Ayman Ashmawi of the Council of Antiquities, Quweisin's tomb has a unique architectural style, as it is built with mud bricks. Its burial well is located on the western side, and on the southern side there are three burial chambers with vaulted ceilings and direction from east to west.
Excavations inside the burial showed that it was used for three different periods of time, since discovered archaeological finds related to burial customs differed from each other on each level. It is assumed that the tomb was used in the late Ptolemaic period and the Roman era.
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