Are you curious as to how the Egyptians came to revere this dung beetle? Keep reading to find out ten facts about the ...

When it was made: Around 1473 B.C. This amulet, shaped like a scarab beetle, was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Hatnefer. But the charm, which was intended to ...

Scarab beetles, as Ben-Tor noted, held sacred status in ancient Egypt, symbolizing new life. This belief stemmed from their habit of laying eggs in dung balls. Notably, the Egyptian word for ...

The Egyptian word for this sacred beetle, scarab, comes from the verb meaning “to form” or “to be created,” according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. “The scarab is indeed a ...

In exchange, we were also given a new fear in the form of flesh-eating scarab ... inside Egyptian iconography, even earning a role in the Egyptian pantheon. Today, we call them Dung Beetles.

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities ... The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr," which means “to come into being” or “to be ...

Amit Dagan and Dafna Filshteiner recount the discovery of a Bronze Age Egyptian ... the beetle lays its eggs inside said balls, the Israel Antiquities Authority noted. Aside from the scarab ...

Blue Beetle broke into the comic world in 1939 as archeologist Dan Garret, discoverer of a mysterious Egyptian scarab, which granted him even more mysterious powers. In the 1950s, Blue Beetle was ...