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However, this figure holds a snake coiled around a pole under her right arm—a symbol tied to deities of health, such as Asclepius (or Aesculapius in Roman tradition) and the Roman goddess Fortuna (Barroso, 2024).

Archaeologists have uncovered 13 mummies with gold tongues and fingernails in Oxyrhynchus - Cairo, Egypt, dating to the Ptolemaic period (304-30 BCE). The gold tongues were believed to enable the dead to speak in the afterlife, as gold was considered the flesh of the gods (Leonard, 2024).

The most intriguing find for archaeologists at Nimrud (2024) was a kudurru, a cuneiform-inscribed stone monument dating back to 797 BCE. It documents a royal decree granting the governorship of an area near the Euphrates River at the Syria-Iraqi border (DiSanto, 2024).

Credit: Penn Museum

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