The Scarab is an Egyptian symbol for the sun. The scarab (or “dung beetle”) gathers a ball of dung, and pushes it through the desert to its nest, where it is eaten by its young after the eggs have hatched. The ancient Egyptians believed that the sun moved through the sky by being pushed by a beetle who rolled it above the horizon, then carried it through the other world after sunset, only to renew it, again, the next day. For them, the beetle was associated with the Sun God, Ra. Scarabs were popular amulets and impression seals in Ancient Egypt and are an important source of information for archaeologists and historians of the ancient world.