Roman-Era Cemetery in Egypt’s Minya Reveals Gold Tongues and Homer’s Iliad Papyrus
In a newly uncovered Roman-era cemetery in Egypt’s Minya province, archaeologists noticed something unusual. Inside the mouths of several mummies were small, carefully shaped tongues made of gold. The discovery, made at the ancient site of Al-Bahansa—known in antiquity as Oxyrhynchus—offers rare physical evidence of afterlife beliefs in a region where Egyptian, Greek, and Roman