Easter-egg decorating is an ancient tradition with deep roots extending at least into the medieval period of European history ...

The Eye of Horus was a key symbol in ancient Egypt. It appeared on amulets and in tombs. Egyptians believed it offered divine ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

While cleaning the entrance hall, conservators revealed the original colors painted on ... and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how ...

Ziv Nitzvan, 3, discovered the amulet in the area around Beit Shemesh, a city that’s located less than an hour west of Jerusalem. It depicts a scarab, a beetle that commonly figures on ancient ...

In February, a man from southern Alberta flew to Central America to return an ancient artifact his family had been gifted decades before. Don McDougall from Okotoks, Alta., says a jade amulet from ...

These amulets were often worn as pendants, rings, or seals, serving not only as symbols of devotion but also as markers of social position. As ancient Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab.

The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the ...

Archaeologists say Nitzan picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab ... scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum, says in ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display ... Image Ziv, moments after finding the ancient artifact. She said she first ...

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release. Ancient Egyptians saw some scarabs as representations of new life because the ...