Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in place of their tongues, a startling detail that fuses ritual, status, and ...

Archeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold-tongue amulet meant to let the dead person “speak” — though hopefully not curse — in the afterlife. Mummy curses are a purely ...