Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

The discovery included 52 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, the structure of a large tomb where 300 mummies had been ...

During a family trip near an archaeological site in Hod Hasharon, Israel, Dafna Filshteiner discovered an ancient amulet dating back approximately 3,500 years.

The ancient Egyptians put gold tongues in mummies with the intention ... the archaeologists also found 29 amulets with the mummies. Some amulets are in the shape of scarab beetles, as the ancient ...

The joint Spanish-Egyptian mission found the gold tongues after reaching ... and the Institute of the Ancient Middle East found detailed wall paintings and amulets carved in the shape of various ...

Among the 49 detected amulets, 30 were made of gold while the others of faience ... According to the ancient Egyptians' ritual Book of The Dead, the deceased had to wear white sandals to be ...

Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more coffins, with the final gold coffin containing the ... Which became quite a thing for the Ancient Egyptians, as King Tut’s remains would demonstrate.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and ...