Archaeologists discovery mummies with gold tongues

Archaeologists at the Taposiris Magna temple in Alexandria, Egypt excavated mummies with gold tongues. The mummies are approximately 2,000 years old. From the BBC News:

It is thought the dead were given gold foil amulets shaped like tongues so that they could speak before the court of the god Osiris in the afterlife.

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