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A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The ...

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 ...

Three-year-old Ziv Nitzan inadvertently discovered an ancient scarab amulet dating back 3,800 years in Beit Shemesh. The relic, a significant find for the Israel Antiquities Authority, highlights the ...

“Scarabs were used in this period as seals and as amulets,” said Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, in press materials. “They were found in ...

thrived one of the most important cities in the Judean Lowlands," said Mr Lipschits "The scarab found by Ziv joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite finds discovered here, which attest to the ...

Their young would then hatch from these balls of dung. The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr", which means “to come into being” or “to be created,” according to the ...