Thin plates of gold, each cut into the shape of a human tongue, were still resting inside the mouths of mummified remains when archaeologists opened a cluster of tombs at Al-Bahnasa in central Egypt.

Beneath the farmland of Minya governorate in central Egypt, a team of archaeologists recently opened a cluster of sealed tombs at Al-Bahnasa and found something striking: mummies sheathed in gold foil ...