(credit: Emil Aladjem, Antiquities Authority) Generally, scarabs were viewed as sacred creatures in Egyptian culture and were associated with the early morning sun's Egyptian god Khepri.

The Egyptian people were probably originally Sumerians ... as well in the form of picture writing called hieroglyphs. The scarabs shown in this exhibition, with their hieroglyphic writings on ...

as the ancient Egyptians associated scarabs with the movement of the sun across the sky. Other amulets are in the shape of Egyptian deities, including Horus, Thoth and Isis. Some of them have ...

The colourful wall paintings depict some of the gods. The beetle or scarab represents the Egyptian god Khepri. Students could write a diary entry from the perspective of Howard Carter on the day ...