"I showed it to my mother, and she said it was just an ordinary stone or a bead," the girl said, describing the moments after ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

What the young girl found turned out to be an Egyptian amulet dating back to the New Kingdom period, about 3,500 years ago. The amulet took the shape of a dung beetle, which was sacred in Ancient ...

The Eye of Horus, an omnipresent symbol in Ancient Egypt, is often associated with amulets and burials, carrying a spiritual ...

A young girl on a family hike near the central city of Hod Hasharon recently discovered a small Egyptian stone amulet, thousands of years old, lying out in the open, the Israel Antiquities ...

Dr. Amit Dagan and Dafna Filshteiner recount the discovery of a Bronze Age Egyptian Scarab amulet. (Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority) An ancient Egyptian scarab amulet dating back around 3,500 ...

A CLEVER team of archaeologists have unearthed a trio of ancient tombs which all belonged to a peculiar set of Egyptians. The ...

The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or ... The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr," which means “to come into being” or “to be created,” according to the authority ...

The scarab was either used as a seal or amulet, according to Dr. Daphna ... which was considered sacred in Ancient Egypt. "It was a symbol of new life, because of the dung ball it created and ...

During the Middle Bronze Age, scarabs were used as seals and amulets, as Daphna Ben-Tor, curator of Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum, says in the IAA statement. “They were found in ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an upcoming exhibition. By Jonathan Wolfe A 3½-year-old in Israel recently made ...