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 amulet. “We were walking along the path ...

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.

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle ... They were also used for security, the Metropolitan Museum of Art said. “The Egyptians did not have locks and keys,” according ...