An American high school student with the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Muss High School Israel (Muss) discovered a 3,300-year-old scarab (an Egyptian amulet shaped like a dung beetle) while touring Tel Gezer National Park. The scarab was inscribed with two cobras above a semiellipse. Professor Ido Koch of Tel Aviv University dated the scarab to the Late Bronze Age based on its style and iconography. Ancient Gezer was an important Canaanite city during the Late Bronze Age, and it is one of the cities that the Israelites failed to conquer (Josh 16:10).
Source: https://www.iaa.org.il/en/page/news-index (see “A U.S. High School Student Discovers a 3,300-Year-Old Amulet During a Tour in the Judean Lowlands” [Nov. 2, 2026])
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