Literary and Popular Culture Reference
- P.G. Wodehouse's first Blandings novel — Something Fresh (1915) — involves the pilfering of a rare Egyptian scarab (a "Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty") as a key plot device.
- In the British crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers` novel Murder Must Advertise a scarab, catapulted, is the murder weapon.
- The rock band Journey uses various types of scarabs as their main logo and in the cover art of the albums Departure, Captured, Escape, Greatest Hits, Arrival, Generations, Revelation, and The Essential Journey
- Scarabs are still made as jewelry; one of the best-known makers is the iconic London-based jeweler, The Great Frog.
- The Egyptian death metal band Scarab takes their name from these artifacts.
- The famous Dutch print-maker, M. C. Escher (1898–1972) created a wood engraving in 1935 depicting two scarabs or dung beetles.
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Amulets: Scarab and Papyrus
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Scarab with a cartouche
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Scarab: top, and engravings
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Commemorative Marriage Scarab for Queen Tiye from Amenhotep III
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Signet ring, with cartouche, and for the Pharaoh:
'Perfect God, Lord of the Two Lands'–('Ntr-Nfr, Neb-taui') -
Scarab with Spread Wings, The Walters Art Museum.
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