The English word scarab doesn't only mean beetle, but also a culture of functional and decorative sculptural jewelry based on ...

Three-year-old Ziv Nitzan inadvertently discovered an ancient scarab amulet dating back ... Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab. Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans adopted the beetle-shaped ...

The news hit the press the same day that the Israel Antiquities Authority faced controversy over a canceled conference.

Scarab beetles, as Ben-Tor noted, held sacred status in ancient Egypt, symbolizing new life. This belief stemmed from their habit of laying eggs in dung balls. Notably, the Egyptian word for ...

The agency notes these tiny treasures can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where the dung beetle was ... "The scarab found by Ziv joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite finds discovered ...

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 ...

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release. Ancient Egyptians ... s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr," which means ...

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 ... moments after finding the ancient artifact.