Putting their mummy where their mouth is.
A baker’s dozen of mummies with golden tongues and fingernails have been discovered in 2,000-year-old tombs in middle Egypt.
Archaeologists discovered the 13 golden grills and falsies alongside ritual scenes of deities that had previously never been seen in the Behnese region of the time-tested nation, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The gilded palate prosthetics are believed by experts to have been inserted so that the dead would be able to speak with Osiris, the god of the underworld, after their death.
The golden nails are unique to this finding, though golden tongues had previously been found at Oxyrhynchus according to the agency.
A team of archaeologists discovered a trove of dozens of bodies after digging down to the bottom of a burial shaft, according to Live Science.
The mummies themselves date back to the Ptolemaic period — roughly 304 BC to 30 BC — and were found in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus, a city about 100 miles southwest of Cairo.
“The number of gold tongues here is high, which is interesting,” Salima Ikram, Egyptology professor at American University in Cairo told Live Science.
“Possibly the bodies belong to higher elites that were associated with the temple and animal cults that proliferated in the area,” the professor conjectured to the outlet.
Archaeologists also found 29 golden amulets, some in the shape of scarabs, the beetles that are commonly depicted in Ancient Egyptian antiquities.
A beautiful wall painting was also discovered in the burial chamber.
The work depicts several Egyptian deities, including Nut the sky-goddess who is depicted surrounded by stars.
