A talisman in the shape of a scarab, more than three thousand years old, was found by a school student during a trip to Israel "I couldn't believe this was happening to me: just a minute ago we were talking about how the chance of finding such a find is negligible, and now it's right in my hands! NYP reports that. 17-year-old Shilo Atton noticed something shaped like a scarab on the ground during a field trip to Tel Gezer National Park and immediately showed it to the guide. As it turned out, it was a Late Bronze Age amulet. "The scarab depicts an interesting scene: two cobras over half an oval. The cobra, which is associated with the biblical snake and is called "Uraeus" in Egyptian and Greek, was a very common protective and royal symbol in ancient Egypt and the southern Levant. The half-ellipse below the cobra represents the Egyptian hieroglyphic sign, say "Egyptian hieroglyphic". The amulet was transferred to a collection of national treasures. The world is burning, and we are in Zen.

A talisman in the shape of a scarab, more than three thousand years old, was found by a school student during a trip to Israel "I couldn't believe this was happening to me: just a minute ago we were talking about how the chance of finding such a find is negligible, and now it's right in my hands! NYP reports that. 17-year-old Shilo Atton noticed something shaped like a scarab on the ground during a field trip to Tel Gezer National Park and immediately showed it to the guide. As it turned out, it was a Late Bronze Age amulet. "The scarab depicts an interesting scene: two cobras over half an oval. The cobra, which is associated with the biblical snake and is called "Uraeus" in Egyptian and Greek, was a very common protective and royal symbol in ancient Egypt and the southern Levant. The half-ellipse below the cobra represents the Egyptian hieroglyphic sign, say "Egyptian hieroglyphic". The amulet was transferred to a collection of national treasures. The world is burning, and we are in Zen.