The scarab is a type of beetle.
The pharaohs used scarabs in several uses, including religious and mundane ones. They were inspired by its shape to make rings, necklaces, statues and sculptures, and they used to put them in tombs with the dead and inside the shrouds, and they engraved on them commandments from the Book of the Dead to help the dead when reckoning. They worked to make scarab something sacred, so they used gold in the Scarab industry. Still, we rarely find a pharaonic scarab of gold because of their theft or disappearance in mysterious circumstances.
And it was called in the hieroglyphic language “Khebri”, which renews itself every day and comes every day. The scarab was the gift that King Amenhotep III, one of the kings of the 18th dynasty, gave to his wife Queen Tiye, whom he loved very much, and wrote her name on that group of commemorative scarabs, and left That scarab in its place and engraved on it his name and the name of his wife Queen “Ti”.
The chief inspector of Karnak adds that what King Amenhotep III did has symbolism in the scarab, which is as if he is calling for his wife to continue to love him every day and that God bless her with health and wellness, as this is the symbolism of the scarab. The scarab is also a symbol of the sun god “Amon – Ra, and at sunrise, the goddess “Nut”, the goddess of the sky, gives birth to the scarab, which was the first form of the god “Amun-Ra”, where he begins his activity and pushes balls of dung in the form of a sun disk, which is the reason why the ancient Egyptians linked the scarab and the sun.