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 ...

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family.

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 ...

Beetles are at the heart of many ways we take inspiration from nature. Here are some examples. The fogstand beetle lives in the Namib Desert, where the average rainfall is 14mm a year and survives ...

One of the figures from Ancient Egypt placed in his study is this Heart Scarab. The scarab, or dung beetle, was a sacred symbol of resurrection and crucial in the imagery relating to the passage ...