Question

what is the meaning of this line fom discovering tut "probe the secrets that the winged goddesses of a gilded burial shrine protected for so long"

Answer 1

This line from Discovering Tut, "probe the secrets that the winged goddesses of a gilded burial shrine protected for so long" means that scientists, forensic experts, and doctors began to investigate and examine the mysteries and secrets about Tut that the goddess Osiris had protected for so long. Osiris was considered to be the goddess of afterlife; so at the time of burial, the mural of the goddess had been made in the tomb of Tut.