The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

The symbol was popular in Ancient Egyptian culture and was found at a site known for its archaeological significance.

When three-year-old Ziv Nitzan was out walking with her family in Israel, her sharp eyes spotted an usual stone. It was an ancient Egyptian artifact.

A young girl found an ancient seal carved with a scarab beetle on a family outing to the Tel Azekah archaeological site, near ...

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 ... Scarabs, or dung beetles, were particularly popular in talismans ...

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 a symbol of ...

(via Ancient Origins). Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority Scarabs, otherwise known as dung beetles ... “The scarab found by Ziv joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite finds ...

The scarab relic was most likely ... thousands of years ago. This beetle, considered sacred in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, was a symbol of new life, because of the dung ball it created ...

The tiny ornate object, which originated in ancient Egypt, was designed in the shape of a dung beetle, or scarab - a creature that was considered sacred by ancient Egyptians and symbolized new life.