Archaeologists dig up 52 mommies in Egypt. More than a dozen are mysterious golden languages.

• Archaeologists discovered over a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with languages ​​made from golden charms.
• The idea of ​​the Egyptians behind the gold tongues is that they help the dead speak in late life.
• The discovery of modern-day old gold artifacts in the graves of Egypt can be remarkable thanks to the spread of theft, so a peek inside the jaws is a stroke of luck.

Painting your gold tongue is not good on earth, but the ancient Egyptians believe that leaving the deceased a tongue of a tongue to speak later people. Egyptian archaeologists discovered literal evidence of practice, opening the graves Dating from Ptolemaic Era (305 BC to 30 BC) In ancient oxyrhynchus town with 13 mummies with golden charms in the area.

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities wrote to a translated statement that the golden tongues were not only found in the tombs, located near the modern-day al-Bahnasa, discovered on the team and rods and cramps, and yeps, even more gold ( including gold nails – another symbol of life protection). The site also shows four complete intact limestone sarcophagi. Archaeologists find a total of 52 mummies, which they dated during the ptolemaic period, as part of the discovery.

“These findings provide new views of the religious acts and traditions of the Ptolemaic Era in Al-Bahnasa,” says Mohamed Ishmael, according to UNTO known. Finding gold within ancient graves became more unique in modern times, thanks for centuries of The robbers are severe robbers considered modestly precious from graves and ruins.

Archaeologists find their discovery of languages ​​and nails of other, more commonly discovered, including a scarab that has been placed in the heart of a mummy – yet, Unique part of this search So Scarab folded into mummy wrappings.

The united mission between Barcelona University and the institute of the ancient east of Germany did not find the grave without a grave of mummies. The team first found a rectangular funeral in the stone grave, but it opened in a main hall with three PLUNA chambers If the mommy arranged, Esther Pon Mellado said, teamwork. In all, 52 mummies from the ptolemaic period were found to be part of a larger collection of nearly 300 mummies.

Golden adornments are always decorative as well, tied to the descriptions of different gods. “These enthusiastic scenes offer an unsteady from the ancient art of bathing in the region,” said Maite Masculoart, co-leader ,.

The artist did not stop mummies, because the team reported that the tomb included many colorful works of art, often showing local families in the presence of the gods. The ceiling has the goddesses of heaven among the stars and boats that flow other gods.

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