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

In the English-speaking world, referring to someone as ... unearthing 13 mummies with gold tongues. The joint Spanish-Egyptian mission found the gold tongues after reaching the bottom of a burial ...

where speaking in tongues and "words of knowledge" are not uncommon practices. Tongues have no readily comprehended meaning and are sometimes believed to be a divine language unknown to the person ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ...

Experts believe these ornate tongues were intended to allow the dead to speak with the god of the underworld, Osiris. Gold nails, however, are rarely found in Egyptian archaeological digs.