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, 3, discovered a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab amulet while hiking with her family. She found the seal while at Tel Azekah in early March. The seal will be displayed in a special ...

A toddler on a family hike in Israel made a stunning archaeological find, uncovering an ancient scarab amulet at Tel Azekah, the legendary battlefield where David is said to have defeated Goliath.

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. The Bronze Age artefact was found by the toddler ...

A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The Canaanite scarab amulet, which dates to the Middle Bronze Age ...

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 ...

The family handed the scarab over to the Israel Antiquities ... During the Middle Bronze Age, scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the ...

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 from the Bronze Age, according to the Israel Antiquities ...