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The worldwide tour of âRamses and the Pharaohsâ Goldâ is slated to run from November 2021 through January 2025, kicking off in three major U.S. cities before a two-city European run.
The traveling exhibit will display an extensive collection of gold artifacts that belonged to ancient Egyptian royal dynasties more than 3,200 years ago. share this article
A number of exciting art exhibitions were postponed last year
 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but art and history lovers (thankfully) have more excitement to look forward to in 2021. Later this year, a blockbuster exhibition of ancient Egyptian treasures will debut in the United States, completing separate stints in three major U.S. cities before heading across the Atlantic for a European run.
Gold-tongued mummy found at 2,000-year-old burial site in Egypt
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Updated: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 16:20 [IST]
Cairo, Feb 02: A 2,000-year-old mummy bearing a tongue made of gold has been unearthed by Archaeologists at the ancient Egyptian site Taposiris Magna.
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Embalmers perhaps placed the golden tongue on the mummy to ensure that the deceased would be able to speak in the afterlife, Egypt s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.
The skeleton with the gold tongue was found to be well-preserved, as its skull and most of its structure is still intact.
Archaeologists dug it out of the rock-cut tomb and were met with the still shining gold object inside of the skeleton s mouth.
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
2 Feb 2021, 11:24
Updated: 2 Feb 2021, 12:26
AN ANCIENT mummy with a golden tongue has been unearthed in Egypt.
The expensive-tongued man was buried at a 2,000 year old site associated with rulers who thought jewellery enabled the dead to talk in the afterlife.
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This ancient Egyptian man was buried with a golden tongueCredit: Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiques
Experts believe the gold tongue was given to the ancient Egyptian man after death in an attempt to help him speak to Osiris, the Egyptian god of death.
His real tongue was likely removed during the embalming process.
2021-02-01 11:35:55 GMT2021-02-01 19:35:55(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) A Chinese-Egyptian archeological mission has breathed life into the once-abandoned Montu Temple in the Karnak Temple Complex of Egypt s monument-rich city of Luxor, said an official with Egypt s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Mustafa al-Saghir, director-general of Karnak Temple Complex Antiquities, told Xinhua in a recent interview that although the joint Egyptian-Chinese mission has been working for two seasons only, it has achieved very significant results at the temple.
The mission is doing excavations through which the architectural elements of the temple are being revealed, he said.