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A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians.

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Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.

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A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.

They used charms to ward off evil spirits, often in the shape of a scarab beetle.

Scarab seals were based on cylinder seals from Ur.

Being taken to the " dust destructor " by a Scammell Scarab three wheeled ' mechanical horse ' .

You must use your mystical winged scarab to shoot magical spheres and destroy the approaching colored spheres by making matches of three or more.

Some common symbols in Ancient Egyptian religious jewelry include the scarab (beetle ), lotus, serpent, falcon, and the eye.

Both these amulets are pierced longways to hang on a necklace, as typical of many scarab amulets.

A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab.

And, of course, they DELIBERATELY buried a valuable royal scarab in situ !

The Scarab by Gallun introduced tiny robotic insects in 1936.

Okay, drop the shovel and get the scarab, then go back SW.

And, of course, they DELIBERATELY buried a valuable royal scarab in situ!

The sacred beasts in the various temples, tame as far as possible, were of almost every conceivable variety, from the vulture to the swallow or the goose, from the lion to the shrew-mouse, from the hippopotamus to the sheep and the monkey, from the crocodile to the tortoise and the cobra, from the carp to the eel; the scorpion and the scarab beetle were perhaps the strangest in this strange company of deities.

Some common symbols in Ancient Egyptian religious jewelry include the scarab (beetle), lotus, serpent, falcon, and the eye.

The Hogan's respective legal teams have talked about liquidating their many assets like a Scarab power boat, a Rolls Royce and their two homes worth nearly $10 million combined, to name just a few.

The only way to get it is to play the last level until you get the banshee; once you have the banshee go to the part were the scarab shoots that big building.

Beat the Scarab, go to the map room, and look for the two-level room with the purple energy column.

Natural lucky charms that bring good fortune such as ladybugs, scarab beetles and rainbows are often replicated in jewelry or statue form.

The ancient Egyptian obsession with the afterlife is also quite intriguing, filled with magical amulets like the Ankh and the scarab.

At first being used in their natural forms, these pebbles or gems have been grouped as lenticular or bean-shaped, and glandular or of the sling-bolt pattern; later, from the 6th to the 4th century B.C., they were fashioned as scaraboids, that is, in the general form of the Egyptian scarab, but without the sculptured details of the beetle's body.

But while the scarab met with little favour in Greece, where, as just stated, the scaraboid was preferred, among the Etruscans its adoption was complete, and with them it became the commonest form of the seal-matrix, dating from the latter part of the 6th century B.C., engraved chiefly with subjects derived from Greek art.

The cylinder, however, seems to have been generally superseded in Egypt by the engraved scarab, or beetle-shaped object, which, it may be assumed, was used at an early time, as it certainly was in later Egyptian history, for sealing purposes, although its proper function was that of an amulet.

There are clear traces of a settlement going back to the 7th century, including a scarab factory, which yielded numerous scarabs, not of native Egyptian manufacture, bearing the names of the kings that preceded Amasis.

The Phoenicians, as was only to be expected of those traders and artisans of the ancient world, appear to have adopted both the cylinder of Assyria and the scarab of Egypt as have survived the numerous engraved stones or g pebbles, technically called gems, which served as matrices and in most instances were undoubtedly mounted as finger-rings or were furnished with swivels.