Numerous Types of Scarabs

 

Heart Scarab

 





   As you may know from the title that there are many types of scarabs. The funny part about it is that there are only two types of  scarabs, so those are the ones you are going to learn about. The first one out of the two I am going to talk about are the winged scarabs. They are virtually always made of blue faience and incorporated into bead nets covering mummies. The last type of scarab are the heart scarabs. They had hieroglyphics with magical spells carved on the bottom of the scarab. The reason for the magic spells was so that the heart did not testify against the owner at the weighing of the heart ceremony. There are 100 heart scarabs placed at the heart of the scarab hence the name heart scarab. Those are the two types of scarabs in ancient Egypt.

 



Winged Scarab