Palestine Archaeologist Finds Egyptian ‘heart Scarab’

A “heart-scarab,” the first discovery of its kind in Palestine, has been found, with other objects belonging to the Fourteenth Century B. C. E., by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Tell Jerisheh, Palestine, near the Yarkon River, according to word just received here by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University.

The large stone scarab, dating from the XVIII Dynasty, uncovered by Dr. E. L. Sukenik, archaeologist of the Hebrew University and leader of the expedition, is of the type termed “heart-scarab,” because it was placed on the heart of the mummy, and bears a hieroglyphic inscription of a passage from the “Book of the Dead.”