The Egyptian beetle, or Scarabaeus sacer, is a dung beetle that lives in a variety of environments, from the desert to the ...

“This beetle rolls a ball 1,000 times its weight ... The exhibition also features an animated video based entirely on Egyptian artistic representations depicting various interactions between ...

When it was made: Around 1473 B.C. This amulet, shaped like a scarab beetle, was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Hatnefer. But the charm, which was intended to ...

Since the symbol is connected to the Egyptian pantheon, the scarabs symbolize the concept of existence, growth, and new life. Additionally, this beetle was seen as a sign of a divine creator ...

The clicking sound it makes, while doing an acrobatic jump that it has mastered, gives the insect its name – the click beetle. Such surprise movements or, conversely, feigning dead, are its ...

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 ...