Budding archaeologist Ziv Nitzan might have made a career for herself later in life after finding a 3,800-year-old amulet ... Scarab seals are tiny, ornate objects originally from ancient Egypt. They ...

Ziv Nitzvan, 3, discovered the amulet in the area around Beit Shemesh, a city that’s located less than an hour west of Jerusalem. It depicts a scarab, a beetle that commonly figures on ancient ...

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 ... Scarabs, or dung beetles, were particularly popular ...

Visiting the Tel Azekah site with her family from their home in the Israeli settlement of Ramot Meir, she happened upon a 3,800-year-old scarab ... amulets,” said Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of ...

“The Egyptian mission under Dr. Zahi Hawass ... along with coloured pottery vessels, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III. “Many foreign missions searched ...

As ancient Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab. Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans adopted the beetle-shaped amulet, incorporating it into their own rituals and jewellery collections.

A "beautiful stone" picked up by a three-year-old girl in Israel has been revealed by archaeologists to be a rare 3,800-year-old scarab amulet ... joins a long list of Egyptian and Canaanite ...

The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated ... insect’s name in Egyptian derives from the verb “to be created”, as ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol ...

The family handed the scarab over to the Israel ... decorated objects that originated in ancient Egypt. They’re typically shaped like dung beetles, which ancient Egyptians considered a sacred ...