{"id":153036,"date":"2021-02-03T06:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=153036"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:03:54","slug":"dominican-archaeologist-finds-mummy-with-golden-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/dominican-archaeologist-finds-mummy-with-golden-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican archaeologist finds mummy with golden tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Momias-con-lenguas-de-oro-BBC-e1612349747905.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153082\"\/><figcaption>Ancient mummy with golden tongue \/ BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mart\u00ednez leads a Dominican-Egyptian team that is on the trail of Queen Cleopatra\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-55902631\">BBC <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2011\/07\/Cleopatra\/\">National Geographic<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mummy-with-gold-tongue-discovered.html\">Live Science<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 February 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Mart\u00ednez leads a Dominican-Egyptian team that is on the trail of Queen Cleopatra\u2019s tomb. Cleopatra was the last queen of the Greek-speaking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/dominican-archaeologist-finds-mummy-with-golden-tongue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153095,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153036\/revisions\/153095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}