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

Digital scans of an Egyptian mummy have revealed a teenage boy buried with a “second heart” made from gold, as well as dozens of other amulets that the ancient Egyptians believed were ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold ...

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 ...

12-year-old Dafna Filshteiner found a 3,500-year-old ancient Egyptian amulet while hiking in a suburb of Tel Aviv. The finding, outlined in a December 4 statement by the Israel Antiquities ...

A 3 ½-year-old girl vacationing in Israel found more than seashells during a family vacation early last month, instead digging up an amulet more ... name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr ...

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 ...

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 ...

suggesting that the amulet was not originally intended for her. The Book of the Dead passage engraved on the bottom of the scarab discusses the weighing of the heart. In ancient Egypt, the heart ...

An Israeli girl hiking in the Tel Qana site near Hod Hasharon recently discovered an ancient Egyptian amulet, estimated to be some 3,500 years old. "I was looking down at the ground to find ...