According to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, human remains with golden tongues were found in the discovery of two tombs from the Sai period in Ancient Egypt.
The find at the El Banas archaeological site in the southern Egyptian region of Minya was made during excavations carried out by an expedition of the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Barcelona in Spain.
At the entrance to the first tomb, the remains of two people with golden tongues were found, and inside – a large sarcophagus with a lid in the shape of a woman’s body. Initial research indicates that the tomb was opened and plundered in ancient times.
“The second tomb, adjacent to the first, is intact and completely closed,” said the head of the excavation, Professor Hassan Amer, from the Department of Archeology at Cairo University.
It contained a limestone sarcophagus with a lid in the shape of a human body and two niches with vessels for storing the inside of the mummy, as well as several hundred ceramic funerary figurines (ushabti), amulets and beads.
Archaeologists believe the two tombs contain more secrets that future research will reveal. We have yet to learn more about golden tongues.
Since the beginning of the expedition to El Bahnasa in 1992, many valuable artifacts from the 26th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt between 664-525 BC, known as the Sai period, as well as the Greco-Roman and Coptic periods, have been unearthed.