"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

While on a hike with her family along a trail in Israel, a 3-year-old girl picked up a small stone. It turned out to be a ...

A visit today to the tomb in the Valley of the Kings provides evidence and clues about life in the times of the Ancient Egyptians. The colourful wall paintings depict some of the gods. The beetle ...

A visit today to the tomb in the Valley of the Kings provides evidence and clues about life in the times of the Ancient Egyptians. The colourful wall paintings depict some of the gods. The beetle ...

Three-year-old Ziv Nitzan stumbled upon the 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip with family to the archaeological site ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The scarab, shaped like a dung beetle, was regarded in ancient Egypt as a symbol of creation, renewal, and the divine. It was believed to be a representation of the Creator God and had a powerful ...

The agency notes these tiny treasures can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where the dung beetle was "considered sacred" and seen as "a symbol of new life" or even of God. "Scarabs were used in ...