Archaeologists Find 24 ‘Golden Tongues’ and a False Door to the Hereafter: the Strange Egyptian Altar Designed to Cross the World of the Dead
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A team of archaeologists discovered 18 tombs from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods in the ancient city of Marina el-Alamein, on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, where he found 24 gold languages, a funerary altar with a unique design and other objects that offer new clues about beliefs around life after death.
Funeral amulets, found in graves over 2,000 years old, were probably intended to allow the deceased to address the gods in the afterlife.
Egyptian archaeologists have just extracted dozens of golden languages from 18 ancient tombs in Marina el-Alamein, near Alexandria. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this discovery at the beginning of July 2026. These pieces, placed in the mouths of the deceased, were used according to beliefs to address the gods in the afterlife. Their presence on this coastal site reveals that the Egyptian funeral rites survived centuries of Gr…
Among the findings are a granite sarcophagus, a statue of Aphrodite and an altar to simulate a false door The archaeologists discovered 18 tombs of the Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Marina el-Alamein, an ancient city located on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. The discovery revealed a large number of funerary objects, including 24 gold amulets known as ‘golden tongues’, which, according to researchers, would have been placed in the mouths of mumm…
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