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 chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in ... including marble and Egyptian alabaster, which is endemic to the country but has become overlooked as a ...

The colourful wall paintings depict some of the gods. The beetle or scarab represents the Egyptian god Khepri. Students could write a diary entry from the perspective of Howard Carter on the day ...

The colourful wall paintings depict some of the gods. The beetle or scarab represents the Egyptian god Khepri. Students could write a diary entry from the perspective of Howard Carter on the day ...

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

As ancient Egyptian culture spread, so did the scarab. Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans adopted the beetle-shaped amulet, incorporating it into their own rituals and jewellery collections.