While exploring ancient copper factories in southern Jordan, a team of archaeologists picked up an Egyptian amulet that bears the name of the powerful pharaoh Sheshonq I. The tiny artifact could ...

When a teenage boy died 2,300 years ago in Egypt, he was mummified and adorned with 49 protective amulets and a golden mask to guide him in the afterlife. Researchers discovered the amulets placed on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Scarab amulets have been excavated in ...

Scientists have used computed tomography (CT) scans to “digitally unwrap” the intact mummy of a 2,300-year-old teenage “Golden Boy” who was laid to rest with 49 different amulets of 21 types designed ...

A mummified body discovered over a century ago has been digitally unwrapped using CT technology, revealing the body of a teenage boy decorated with nearly 50 amulets highlighting a variety of ...

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 the stone ...

JERUSALEM, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- A 12-year-old Israeli girl found a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab amulet, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a statement on Thursday. The beetle-like amulet, ...

A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The Canaanite scarab amulet, which dates to the Middle Bronze Age, was ...

The "first-of-its-kind" artefact was unearthed by a lucky group from Jerusalem visiting an archaeological site in the northwest Negev Desert in southern Israel. Although similar amulets have been used ...

Late in August, three species of insects converged to form a dense feeding assemblage on wilting hollyhocks. Scarab beetles cut the stems to feed on sap, and European paper wasps and longhorn beetles ...

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