Scarabs: An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Seals and Signet Rings, With Forty-Four Plates and One Hundred and Sixteen Illustrations in the Text

Carved beetles of stone and faience were among the most common objects in ancient Egypt. They were used as seals, amulets and signet rings, and they still turn up in museum cases today. Percy Edward Newberry, one of the leading British Egyptologists of his day, set out to explain how to study them. First published in 1906, his introduction covers Egyptian seals and signet rings and is generously illustrated with forty-four plates and over a hundred figures in the text.

This is a facsimile reprint of the original work, so it keeps the look and feel of an Edwardian scholarly volume. It suits collectors, students of Egyptology and anyone who has peered at a scarab in a museum and wanted to know more.