The scarab amulet, a beetle shape carved out of stone and adorned with the images of two scorpions, is estimated by experts to be 3,500 years old, the time of Egypt’s New Kingdom period when the ...

A hiker in Israel discovered a centuries-old amulet in a nature reserve ... "When I picked it up, I noticed it was engraved like a scarab or beetle." Avrahamov then called the antiquities ...