The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release. Ancient Egyptians saw some scarabs as representations of new life because the ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought h ...

a 3,800-year-old Egyptian artifact. The small object she found is an ancient scarab amulet dating back to the Middle Bronze Age. Tel Azekah is a known archaeological site, and excavations have ...

Popular in ancient Egypt, amulets in the shape of a ... including seals of pharaohs, Egyptian statues, ritual vessels, and now a scarab amulet discovered by an enthralled 3-year-old.

The ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol of nothing less than ... “Scarabs were used in this period as seals and as amulets,” said Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology ...

The toddler, Ziv Nitzan, was visiting the archaeological site of Tel Azekah in southern Israel with her family when she found a scarab amulet believed ... eyes of the ancient Egyptians, was ...