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.

What they found was either an Egyptian or Canaanite scarab, which bears some explaining. The English word scarab doesn’t only mean beetle, but also a culture of functional and decorative ...

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.

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 ...

The Al-Mashhad Art Gallery invites us to rediscover the world of this great Egyptian neo-realist. Mohamed Riyad Saeed (1937-2008), an icon of Egyptian surrealism from the second half of the 20th ...

Chakil gives a subtle nod to Ancient Egyptian animal deities, used as motifs in the designs. The hand-carved pair of ‘Uraeus Birth Chairs’ are crowned by upright, hooded cobras, as a symbol of ...