2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered literal evidence of the practice, opening tombs dating from the Ptolemaic era (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.) in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus that featured 13 mummies ...

The discovery included 52 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, the structure of a large tomb where 300 mummies had been interred side-by-side, and various amulets and scarabs that depicted the ...