{"id":740,"date":"2022-02-22T01:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=740"},"modified":"2022-02-25T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:00:03","slug":"scarab-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/scarab-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarab-Mythology-Symbols-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ancient Egypt, the scarab was a protective sign. The scarab, or dung beetle, was said to have been resurrected. The dung beetle would roll a dung ball that would carry its offspring. Ancient Egyptians believed the beetle was miraculously created when the larvae broke forth from the dung ball. The scarab was worn as a protective sign in Ancient Egypt and can be found on ancient tombs to protect the dead on their journeys to the underworld. Today, it is still used as a protective symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ancient Egypt, the scarab was a protective sign. The scarab, or dung beetle, was said to have been resurrected. The dung beetle would roll a dung ball that would carry its offspring. Ancient Egyptians believed the beetle was miraculously created when the larvae broke forth from the dung ball. The scarab was worn as &#8230; <a title=\"Scarab\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/scarab-3\/\" aria-label=\"More on Scarab\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}