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A handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities January 29, 2021 shows a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold foil amulet inside his mouth uncovered at the Taposiris Magna Temple in western Alexandria. Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities handout pic via AFP
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CAIRO, Feb 3 An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission working near Alexandria has discovered mummies from around 2,000 years ago bearing golden-tongued amulets, the Egyptian authorities told AFP today.
“The mission discovered 16 tombs cut into the rock. in the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria” in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry said in a statement, adding that the burial technique was widespread in the Greek and Roman periods.
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Ruins of ancient Ptolemaic temple discovered in Egypt
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Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of a Ptolemaic period temple, a Roman fort and an early Coptic church, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The church was built in the ruins of the Roman fort, which was found at an archaeological site known as Shiha Fort in the Aswan governorate in southern Egypt, the ministry
The temple dates to the Ptolemaic dynasty, which began about two decades after Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C.
After Alexander’s death, General Ptolemy I became ruler of Egypt (323–285 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which reigned longer than any other dynasty established until the Alexandrian empire succumbed to the Romans in 30BC.
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A Stunning Bounty Of Alexandrian Artifacts
The mummy with the golden tongue was highly unusual, but it is only one of the fascinating relics that have been found in the 16 new burial shafts recently discovered by Kathleen Martinez and her Dominican-Egyptian team.
One of the more remarkable finds was a female mummy that was enclosed in a full body death mask .
A female mummy that was enclosed in a full body death mask. (
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The archaeologists also found the remains of two other entombed mummies, one of which was covered in plaster layers decorated with golden images of Osiris. Partially intact scrolls were found next to these mummies, and the archaeologists have now begun the long laborious process of decoding the scrolls to see what secrets they might reveal.