A Stunning Bounty Of Alexandrian Artifacts
The mummy with the golden tongue was highly unusual, but it is only one of the fascinating relics that have been found in the 16 new burial shafts recently discovered by Kathleen Martinez and her Dominican-Egyptian team.
One of the more remarkable finds was a female mummy that was enclosed in a full body death mask .
A female mummy that was enclosed in a full body death mask. (
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The archaeologists also found the remains of two other entombed mummies, one of which was covered in plaster layers decorated with golden images of Osiris. Partially intact scrolls were found next to these mummies, and the archaeologists have now begun the long laborious process of decoding the scrolls to see what secrets they might reveal.