As she continues on her quest to find the tomb of Queen Cleopatra, Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez discovered a 2,000-year old mummy with a golden tongue at the Taposiris Magna site in Egypt.
Martínez leads a Dominican-Egyptian team that is on the trail of Queen Cleopatra’s tomb. Cleopatra was the last queen of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling Egypt from 51-30 BC. After her death, Egypt fell under Roman domination.
The golden tongue was placed to help the deceased speak in the afterlife, says an Egyptian antiquities ministry press release. The mummy was found at the ancient Egyptian site, Taposiris Magna.
As reported, the team of archaeologists discovered the mummy in one of 16 burials at Taposiris Magna, which has temples dedicated to Osiris and Isis, a goddess who was both the wife and sister of Osiris. Previously, the archaeologists found a hoard of coins decorated with the face of Cleopatra VII, suggesting the temples were in use during the queen’s reign.
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2 February 2021