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 ...

The symbol of a scarab, which is a sort of dung beetle, held great importance in ancient Egyptian religion. Scarabs were associated with "the divine manifestation of the early morning sun ...

Royal scarab of Sheshi, a pharoah of the 13th Dynasty. Such scarabs were produced (even in cheap materials, often in large quantities) but only on behalf of the pharoah; were distributed to elites, as ...

According to initial studies of the scarab, stone engravings reveal the the name of the seal’s owner, his position along with symbolic hieroglyphics.