Archaeologists Discover Mummies With Golden Tongues In Egypt

Wooden coffins and a number of copper nails used in those coffins were also discovered by Archaeologists at the Quesna cemetery.

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Archaeologists have discovered several ancient mummies with golden tongues in Egypt's Quesna cemetery in the central Nile Delta. The mission was carried out in the area - an extension of the archaeological compound - on the orders of the Supreme Council for Archeology, reported the Egypt Independent. There are many tombs in the area that date back to different periods of ancient time.

The mummies unearthed from the site had a number of golden flakes in the form of human tongues in their mouths. While some had their bones glazed in gold, and others were buried near gold-shaped scarabs and lotus flowers.

Wooden coffins and a number of copper nails used in those coffins were also discovered by Archaeologists at the Quesna cemetery.

Though the condition of the mummies is not very good, the ones with gold linings are still intact, reported the Egypt Independent.

The Quesna Quarries Cemetery is an import archaeological site in the Delta, as it is located in the Kfour al-Raml area of ​​Quesna in Monufiya Governorate.

The historical and archaeological value of the  cemetery is due to the diversity of burial methods that were used in it, the Egypt Independent said.

Discovered in 1989, the site is believed to have been occupied during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, which stretched from about 300 BCE to 640 CE.

In early 2021, archaeologists had found a skull with a gold tongue-shaped ornament framed in its yawning mouth while digging a 2,000-year-old site in Egypt.

Later, during the same year, mummies of  a man, a woman and a child were found with golden tongues, which according to archaeologists were more than 2,500 years old.