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Some of the mummies' mouths were filled with gold flakes shaped like human tongues.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">In Egypt,
archaeologists discovered several ancient mummies with golden tongues.
color:#0A0A0A">The mummies were discovered in the central Nile Delta at the
Quweisna necropolis.
color:#0A0A0A">The Supreme Council of Antiquities' Egyptian archaeological
mission discovered an extension of the archaeological Quesna cemetery.
color:#0A0A0A">The ancient tombs date from various periods of history.
color:#0A0A0A">According to Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme
Council of Antiquities, they contain a number of mummies with golden tongues.
color:#0A0A0A">Some of the mummies' mouths were filled with gold flakes shaped
like human tongues.
color:#0A0A0A">The mummies were in poor condition, but the skeletons with gold
linen were still intact, according to Egypt Independent.
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">At the site, there
were also some wooden coffins and copper nails used in those coffins.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">Even though they have
been discovered before, the golden tongues remain a mystery.
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">The site, discovered
in 1989, is thought to have been occupied between 300 BCE and 640 CE during the
Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">A skull with a gold
tongue-shaped ornament framed in its yawning mouth was discovered in early
2021.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">Then, at the end of
2021, a man, a woman, and a child mummy with golden tongues were discovered,
dating back more than 2,500 years.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0A0A0A">At the time of the
discoveries, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities suspected that
embalmers had placed gold in the mummies' mouths to ensure the dead could
navigate the afterlife.
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