An Egyptian mummy dating back about 2000 years has been found buried with a gold tongue.
The discovery was made by a joint Egyptian-Dominican team, headed by Dr Kathleen Martinez, working at the Tabosiris Magna Temple in western Alexandria.
It is believed the tongue, made of gold foil, could have allowed the dead person to speak in the afterlife, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said.
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The ministry said in a statement the newly-discovered mummies were in a poor state of preservation, which was typical of mummies from the later periods of Ptolemaic and Roman rule of Egypt.
The Ptolemies were descended from a general of Alexander the Great. Their line famously ended with Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE, leading to Roman occupation and rule.
It's unknown whether the gold-tongued mummy dates from Cleopatra's rule, but it is believed to be from around that era, with a number of coins from her reign found within the temple previously.
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