A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian ... Museum. The Egyptians thought the scarab symbolized the incarnation of God the Creator. Dr. Daphna Ben-Tor, who works with ancient amulets and ...

A three-year-old girl has stunned archaeologists after discovering an ancient Egyptian scarab amulet dating back 3,800 ... archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, determined the small ...

A young girl on a family hike near the central city of Hod Hasharon recently discovered a small Egyptian ... The scarab amulet, a beetle shape carved out of stone and adorned with the images ...

The family handed the scarab over to the Israel ... scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum, says in the IAA statement.

The amulet took the shape of a dung beetle, which was sacred in Ancient Egypt as a symbol of new life, per the press release. "The scarab is indeed ... at Worthing Museum, previously told Fox ...

While visiting the archaeological site Tel Azekah, some 50 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan found a scarab ... a curator for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem ...

“Scarabs were used in this period as seals and as amulets,” said Daphna Ben-Tor, the curator for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in ... “The scarab found by Ziv joins a long ...

In fact, even the insect’s name in Egyptian derives from the verb “to be created”, as ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol of the incarnation of god. Archaeologists have been ...

Dafna Filshteiner, 12, holds a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab she found during a family hike. A 12-year-old girl hiking with her family stumbled upon a 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet, the Israel ...

While visiting the archaeological site Tel Azekah, some 50 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan found a scarab amulet ... for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem ...