A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...

What it tells us about the past: 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 assist ...

Within seconds of the bellowing call, the Quiet Green transformed into an ancient Egyptian battleground. Chariots were drawn, spears were stabbed and arrows were shot. Hordes of “soldiers” ...

Scarab beetles, as Ben-Tor noted, held sacred status in ancient Egypt, symbolizing new life – as the Egyptian word for scarab comes from the verb meaning “to come into being.” As such ...

Their young would then hatch from these balls of dung. The scarab’s name comes from the Egyptian word "hprr," which means “to come into being” or “to be created,” according to the ...

The 1922 discovery of King Tut’s tomb sparked an international craze for all things ancient Egypt. Scarab beetles, a frequently occurring ... values (red and yellow chairs are more common than green ...

Wasson wondered if a similar aerial burst could have produced enough heat to turn the ground to glass in the Egyptian desert. The first atomic bomb detonation, at the Trinity site in New Mexico in ...

Archaeologists said they also uncovered other artifacts of 'great value,' including a heart scarab in its original position, amulets with figures of Egyptian deities such as Horus, Thoth and ...

HOD HASHARON - During a family hike near Tel Qana, an archaeological site in Hod Hasharon, Dafna Filshteiner, a 12-year-old Israeli girl, stumbled upon a remarkable piece of history. The young girl ...

The Egyptian word for this sacred beetle, scarab, comes from the verb meaning “to form” or “to be created,” according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. “The scarab is indeed a ...

A 12-year-old girl accidentally discovered an ancient 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab on a hike in Israel recently. Dafna Filshteiner was hiking below the ancient site of Tel Qana in Hod Hasharon – ...

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 ...