Experts from Egypt's Ministry of Archeology have discovered 2,000-year-old embalmed strange mummies in the northern part of the country with golden tongues between their jaws.
A team of experts from Egypt and the Dominican Republic has discovered 16 tombs carved out of a rock in the temple of Taposiris Magna, near the city of Alexandria. Such tombs were built during the visit of the Greeks and Romans. Conic bodies were found in the tombs which were not carefully preserved.
It is believed that the tongues of the dead were replaced by amulets as gold-plated tongues so they could speak in the court of their god Osiris (the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead) after death.
Kathleen Martinez, from the University of Santo Domingo, heads the team of experts who discovered the tombs; said that the image of this deity was also made on a box in which a conical body was kept. Kathleen said the head of the conical body was placed in a box with a crown, horns, and images of a cobra snake.
The engraving on the top of the coffin also included a picture of a necklace with an eagle or falcon's head hanging over it, a symbol of the god Horus (the ancient Egyptians' national tutelary deity.)
Alexandria's director-general of archeology, Khalid Abu al-Hamd said, excavations at Taposiris Magna found a niqab worn on a woman's body, eight gold leaf wreaths, and marble pillars which are of Greek and Roman times.
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The Ministry of Archeology says coins were also found in the tomb with a picture of Queen Cleopatra VII on it.
Cleopatra VII was the last Greek-speaking queen of the Ptolemaic Empire, who ruled Egypt from 51 BC to 30 BC. After Cleopatra's death, Egypt came under Roman rule.