Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Experts think the ancient Egyptians may have placed gold tongues on some human ... Isis and Osiris. Some of the amulets are shaped like scarab beetles, which were thought to be imbued with magical ...

Painting your tongue gold doesn’t do much good here on Earth, but ancient Egyptians believed giving the deceased a golden amulet in place ... including a scarab positioned over the heart of ...