Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The mummies with gold tongues date back around 2,000 years. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesĮxperts say that during the embalming process, the deceased’s real tongues were removed and replaced with a piece of gold resembling the organ so that the deceased could speak with Osiris, the ancient Egyptian “Lord of the Underworld.” They think that the tongues also help the dead in tasting all of the goods brought with them into the afterlife. The remains of one of the mummies found in the necropolis. Some of the discovered skeletons have gold-glazed bones. The discovery was made at the Quweisna necropolis, a burial site in the central Nile Delta. The site, which was discovered in 1989, is thought to have been occupied during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, which lasted from 300 BCE to 640 CE.Įxcavations uncovered a number of mummies, some of which were found with a golden tongue or amulet in the deceased’s mouth.
The remains of a gold tongue found on a mummy from ancient Egypt.
Archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities discovered golden tongued Mummies during excavations in the Menoufia governorate.
