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A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The ...
Black-head scarabs originated during the late Egyptian Middle Kingdom (circa 1600 B.C.). The convex, oval form of the scarab provided a shape comparable to that of a human head.
A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.
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Scarabs are real but they’re nothing like the creatures portrayed in The Mummy. In fact, scarabs aren’t just one thing. There are more than 30,000 species of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae ...
A n ancient Egyptian scarab was discovered during a field trip to Azor, located a few miles outside of Tel Aviv, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed Wednesday. The scarab, which depicts an ...
Scarabs are thus invested, it will be seen, with a peculiar charm, and even those who know but little about them can under- stand something of the enthusiasm that must come to one who, like Dr ...
Carved amulets, seals, or illustrations of scarabs are common at Egyptian sites, because the god Ra was believed to take the form of a scarab to roll the Sun above the horizon every morning.
A rare Egyptian scarab seal, possibly belonging to a senior Egyptian official, was found at the Tel Shiloh archaeological site in Samaria. Archaeologists estimate it is 3,000 years old.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a rare sarcophagus featuring a slender face and a scarab ring inscribed with the name of an Egyptian pharaoh, Israel's Antiquities ...
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a rare sarcophagus featuring a slender face and a scarab ring inscribed with the name of an Egyptian pharaoh, Israel’s Antiquities Authority said Wednesday ...