The tongue, found at a temple on the outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt, was probably meant to help the deceased speak in the afterlife, experts said
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Sublime sound of the greatest Church of Christianity in the middle ages
The "Canon of Medicine", a highly popular text, represented a synthesis of medical knowledge from Greco-Roman, Persian & Indian sources
The bag of scrap leather in which it was hidden inside was uncovered in 1993 during an excavation of a room
The hidden artist inside them...
In the middle of the wreck lies an Aswan granite column also believed to belong to the vessel
An extraordinary monument, which had fallen into a state of neglect
The excavation site is part of the Roman Limes which is the ancient northern border of the Roman Empire
They were discovered in the framework of a systematic excavation carried out by the Ephorate at a Roman home of the ancient Aptera, Crete
The archaeologists involved in the recent excavation were surprised to discover that so many of the deceased had been decapitated