Painting your tongue gold doesn’t do much good here on Earth, but ancient Egyptians believed giving the deceased a golden amulet in place of a tongue would allow them to speak in the afterlife.

The ancient Egyptians put gold tongues in mummies with the intention ... the archaeologists also found 29 amulets with the mummies. Some amulets are in the shape of scarab beetles, as the ancient ...

PROF. PETRIE is certainly right in suggesting that the subject of Egyptian amulets is one that appeals to the reader of folklore as well as to the Egyptologist. In amulets we are dealing with ...

2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.

Painting your tongue gold doesn’t do much good here on Earth, but ancient Egyptians believed giving the deceased a golden amulet in place of a tongue would allow them to speak in the afterlife.

Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more coffins, with the final gold coffin containing the ... Which became quite a thing for the Ancient Egyptians, as King Tut’s remains would demonstrate.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and ...

The team also unearthed a statue of a king wearing a headdress, as well as oil lamps, a bronze ring honoring the sky goddess Hathor, and an amulet ... by Martinez. Ancient Egyptians often buried ...