Investigators found the burial levels were different from each other, and there were various directions of burials and ways of placing the mummies. Read more: Mummies found near Nile 'have lower back tattoos’ with hidden meaning The gold tongues were meant to enable the dead to speak to Osiris, the Egyptian deity of the afterlife.ĭr Ayman Ashmawi, head of the Egyptian archeology sector at the Supreme Council of Archeology, said that the excavations inside the extension revealed that it had been used over three different time periods. The researchers said the use of gold in mummification rituals appears to be have been a late development and one undertaken by rich people and priests. (Supreme Council for Archeology) (Supreme Council)
The tongues were found at an archaeological site north of Cairo.
