Three-year-old Ziv Nitzan inadvertently discovered an ancient scarab amulet dating back 3,800 years in Beit Shemesh. The ...

A 3-year-old girl found a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab amulet during a family trip to Tel Azeka, Israel. The 'beautiful' ...

Israeli Ziv Nitzan discovered a 3,800-year-old Canaanite amulet during a family trip last month at Tel Azeka, according to the IAA.

A toddler unearthed an ancient treasure dating back to the Middle Bronze Age during a trip to the archaeological site Tel ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel ’s Tel Azekah area is actually a Bronze ...

One Israeli family got the surprise of a lifetime when their 3 5-year-old daughter discovered an ancient treasure while on a ...

The young girl from Moshav Ramot Meir uncovered an ancient scarab amulet during a family trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh ...

התשע"ח / 2018 A Middle Bronze Age Scarab from Ṫamra (e... Ben-Tor D. 2007. Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period (OBO.SA 27).

The scarab, or dung beetle, was a sacred symbol of resurrection and crucial in the imagery relating to the passage to the afterlife. It was a common article of funeral equipment. The scarab beetle ...

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 ...

Scarab-shaped amulets like the one Nitzan came ... where the dung beetle was "considered sacred" and seen as "a symbol of new life" or even of God. "Scarabs were used in this period as seals ...