2,800-YEAR-OLD SCARAB DISCOVERED BY HIKER IN LOWER GALILEE

Israel21c ^ | February 11

[nickcarraway]

How come I never find things like this when I hike?

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[j.havenfarm]

It’s glorious. Thanks for posting

[nickcarraway]

YW. It is glorious.

[TornadoAlley3]

It’s a sign to vote for the orange man.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Really cool! Thanks. That beats mushrooms and redwood trees!

[algore]

maybe it is just me, but I do not see a beetle.

it looks more like a depiction of a dragon with an energy beam trying to destroy it.

most likely it was a one time use charm designed to absorb an energy beam weapon, but it became unusable.

I wonder if the owner got his own shot off.

[Carriage Hill]

I find them all the time.
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Bottle caps from various Craft Beers.
“Scarabs” of the 20th Century.

[telescope115]

I got a WWII era silver Jefferson nickel out of a Coke machine once…🙄

[wardaddy]

My Scarab late 80s Miami a mite different critter

[algore]

you can clearly see from the other side where the energy beam dispersed and the fracture marks. It looks like maybe it could have taken a second shot, or at least made it non-lethal.

probably this is why we find so few because they would fracture into a million tiny pieces

[ph_balanced]

I believe “scarab” refers to the overall shape and size of the stone and not to the engraving.

[algore]

[FreedomPoster]

How much contraband did you run in THAT!?

;-P

[verum ago]

it looks more like a depiction of a dragon with an energy beam trying to destroy it.

FTA:
Further analysis at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland revealed that the scarab, crafted from carnelian, depicted a griffin or a winged horse galloping

...I do like your theory better though. Much more exciting. Of course, a winged horse might've been the laser dragon of 800 BC...

If time travel is possible, I wanna go back and ambush an ancient Chinese or Egyptian squad in full view of a bunch of witnesses with flash bangs and an M-16 (bayonet and weapon light mounted), while wearing pink crocs, bell bottoms, a fluorescent green safety jacket, a gas mask, and a santa cap.

Imagine the subsequent depictions that archeologists would find and contort themselves into knots trying to come up with a mythology to explain it...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessee Nana.

• 3,000-year-old Egyptian amulet discovered in Israel on a school trip [12/02/2022]
• Rare sarcophagus, Egyptian scarab found in Israel [04/17/2014]
• Rare clay sarcophagus found in Israel alongside Seti I scarab seal ring [04/09/2014]

[algore]

Yeah, but it might not be fun.

A guy I know tried that once.

https://archive.org/details/TheMonolithCDAudio/06.+MONOLITH+2738+Excalibur.mp3

get some good headphones, or if you have a car/home stereo with a decent sub it is well worth your listen

[doorgunner69]

When I was a kid, the looked different:

[Verginius Rufus]

Meanwhile, in the Congressional special election tomorrow in New York, the Republican candidate to replace Santos is an Israeli-Ethiopian Jewish woman. Sounded very good when I heard her on Fox the other day.