The mummies discovered there were in poor condition. The finding of a gold tongue in one of them, as a ritual element to assure its ability to speak before the court of Osiris, which is responsible for judging the deceased in the afterlife, has gotten the most significant international attention.

According to the organization, one of the discovered mummies had golden Osiris beads, while another wore a crown with horns and a cobra on its forehead. A golden necklace in the shape of a hawk, the god Horus’ symbol discovered on the breast of the last corpse.

Khaled Abu al Hamd, director-general of Alexandria’s Department of Antiquities, uncovered a woman’s burial mask, eight gold plates, and eight refined Greco-Roman marble masks in recent months.

The Egyptian-Dominican expedition has been searching the area for more than 15 years to find Cleopatra’s tomb. After her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, bled to death in her arms, the pharaoh committed suicide by having an asp sting her in AD 30. At the very least, this is the official narrative derived from Plutarch’s writings, as it is also suspected that she was poisoned.