Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel’s Tel Azekah area is actually a Bronze Age scarab amulet made over 3,800 years ago. Ziv Nitzan, 3, found ...

She’s just three and a half years old, but Ziv Nitzan has a pretty impressive archaeological find to add to her résumé. Visiting the Tel Azekah site with her family from their home in the ...

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family.

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 ...

This specific type of beetle was considered sacred in ancient Egyptian society and was symbolic of new life. Researchers believe that the Egyptians saw the scarab as a symbol of the incarnation of ...

The discovery of Ziv's scarab adds another layer to the growing collection of Egyptian and Canaanite artefacts found at the site, reinforcing the deep cultural connections between the two ancient ...

Scarabs are small, decorated objects that originated in ancient Egypt. They’re typically shaped like dung beetles, which ancient Egyptians considered a sacred symbol of new life, per the IAA.

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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 conducting ...