AGI – The remains of a mummy with a golden tongue in its mouth have been found by archaeologists in Large taboosiris, A temple located near Alexandria in Egypt, in the north of the country. This important discovery was revealed by the Ministry of Antiquities, The result of a collaboration between a team of archaeologists and scientists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic.
A total of 16 graves were found at the site in tombs carved into the rocks, a technique widely used in the Greco-Roman period, just over two thousand years ago. Inside, the mummies were in a poor state of preservation.
The experts explained that according to the prevailing custom at the time of preparing the sarcophagus The dead were decorated with tongue-shaped gold foil amulets to allow them to speak even in the afterlife, Before the court of the god Osiris, who the ancient Egyptians believed to be the lord of the underworld and judge of the dead.
The same archaeological expedition at Taposeres Magna allowed us to discover it The funeral mask for a womanAnd eight golden tassels for a golden crown and eight marble masks dating back to the Greek and Roman times. Khaled Abu Al-Hamd, director of the Alexandria Antiquities Authority, said that a god was depicted with gilded motifs on cardboard – a material consisting of layers of plaster, linen, and gum – that partly surrounded one of the mummies.
Mission Director Kathleen Martinez explained, “On the cartonnage around the head of a second mummy, the golden decorations depicted a crown, horns and a cobra.”University of Santo Domingo. On the chest, the decorations represent a necklace from which the head of a falcon hangs, the symbol of the god Horus.
Previously found in the same temple coins bearing the name and image of Queen Cleopatra VII, the last queen of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty, who ruled from 51 to 30 BC. After her death, Egypt fell under Roman control.
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