A mummy with a tongue made of gold leaf was discovered in a sealed Egyptian tomb

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of three ancients Egyptians – a man, a woman and a child – equipped with gold leaf tongues, a treasure that will probably help them talk to gods in the afterlife, according to Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The findings according to the publication of the website Livescience.com were found in two neighboring tombs. One of the tombs, looted by burial robbers, contained the remains of a woman and a 3-year-old child and had a limestone sarcophagus with a female-shaped lid, according to the Ahram Online. But the tomb of the man, from the 26th dynasty (664 BC to 525 BC), also known as the period Saitis, was untouched.

“This is very important, because it is rare to find a grave that is completely sealed,” she said. Esther Pons Mellado, co-director of his archeological mission Oxyrhynchus, in the The National, a newspaper covering Middle East.

Her researchers Archaeological Mission of Sturgeon, co-organized by Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and University of Barcelona, discovered the find at its archeological site Sturgeon, close to the modern city El Bahnasa, about 100 miles (160 kilometers). ) south of Cairo. Sturgeon was the capital of the 19th prefecture, or province, of Upper Egypt, according to the shipping website. It is known for papyri Oxyrhynchus or ancient Greek, Latin and other languages ​​written on hundreds of thousands of papyri dating from the third century BC. until the seventh century AD

The two newly discovered tombs add to the history of the ancient capital. The man’s tomb contained a mummy buried in a limestone sarcophagus with an anthropomorphic lid, as well as four jars with a canopy designed to hold the body of the deceased, amulets, green beads and about 400 burial figurines, known as the ushabti The National.

The identities of the man, woman and child are unknown, but archaeologists hope further excavations will reveal more information.

This is the second time this year that archaeologists have found golden tongues in ancient Egyptian burials. In January, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a 2,000 year old mummy with golden tongue in Taposiris Magna, an archeological site on the shores of the Mediterranean Of Egypt. Maybe this person received a golden tongue to help him speak in the afterlife, especially to a deity like Osiris, the god of the underworld, previously mentioned the Live Science.