Chakil based the designs on Egyptian animal deities that have been reinterpreted in modern ways. The Scarab coffee table recalls the plated exoskeleton of the scarab beetle, which was ... that was ...

Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military service in World War II, she spent her childhood scouring the dry fields for crickets, bamboo worms, and scarab beetles hiding in ...

Scarab beetles, as Ben-Tor noted, held sacred status in ancient Egypt, symbolizing new life – as the Egyptian word for scarab comes from the verb meaning “to come into being.” As such ...

The scarab, shaped like a dung beetle, was regarded in ancient Egypt as a symbol of creation, renewal, and the divine. It was believed to be a representation of the Creator God and had a powerful ...

The alluring pebble turned out to be a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet, engraved with the design of an insect known as a scarab and dating ... Scarabs, or dung beetles, were particularly popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, scarab seals are small objects that originate from ancient Egypt “and designed in the shape of a dung beetle," as the Facebook post cited.

While visiting the archaeological site Tel Azekah, some 50 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan found a scarab ... traced back to ancient Egypt, where the dung beetle was "considered ...