The English word scarab doesn't only mean beetle, but also a culture of functional and decorative sculptural jewelry based on ...

Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel ...

As ancient Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab. Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans adopted the beetle-shaped amulet, incorporating it into their own rituals and jewellery collections.

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release. Ancient Egyptians saw some scarabs as representations of new life because the ...

A three-year-old girl has stunned archaeologists after discovering an ancient Egyptian scarab amulet dating back 3,800 years ...

These seals were ornate objects that originated in ancient Egypt, where the dung beetle ... tel where the scarab was found. “The scarab found by Ziv joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite ...

The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated ... insect’s name in Egyptian derives from the verb “to be created”, as ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol ...

An expert has determined that the item was a Canaanite scarab ... of a dung beetle," as the Facebook post cited. “This beetle, considered sacred in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, was a ...