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scarab
Small faience scarab, damaged and engraved on underside with 'X'. 4.7cm long. The scarab beetle IS NOT the flesh-eating monster shown in the film 'The Mummy'! It eats dung. The beetle can be seen in the desert rolling a ball of animal dung into its underground home. The Egyptians compared this to the rolling of the sun-disc across the sky. In addition, scarab eggs are laid in a dung ball. The youn…
Type of item
- scarab
Type of item
- scarab
Providing institution
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Identifier
- EC857
Providing country
- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:42.750Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:15:15.041Z