A 3-Year-Old Was Taking a Family Walk—and Picked Up an Amazing 3,800-Year-Old Amulet
created: Aug. 1, 2025, 1:36 p.m. | updated: Aug. 7, 2025, 7:14 p.m.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet.
The Canaanite scarab amulet, which dates to the Middle Bronze Age, was camouflaged among a the gravel on a path nearby an archaeology site in Israel.
However, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan made the discovery of her young life when, on a walk with her family, she picked up a small stone that wound up being a scarab amulet more than one thousand times her age.
Unlike the archaeologists that have dug up the site over the years, Ziv needed no formal training for her find.
Many of the items will be shown for the first time, including seals of pharaohs, Egyptian statues, ritual vessels, and now a scarab amulet discovered by an enthralled 3-year-old.
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