Oldest scarabs

Oldest scarabs ranked by inception.

Last updated . Source: Wikidata.

As of 2026-10-12, Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah tops the list with 1,981 BC.

  1. #1 Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah — 1,981 BC

    object highlighted in The MET collection

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  2. #2 Sacarab of Iahhetep-E 3297 — 1,601 BC source Wikidata
  3. #3 Heart Scarab of Hatnefer — 1,484 BC

    object highlighted in The MET collection

    The Heart Scarab of Hatnefer is a piece of funerary jewelry dating to the fifteenth century BC. Made of gold and carved serpentinite, the heart scarab was intended to be interred with a woman of importance and was discovered among the artifacts in her tomb, where she and her husband were buried. The amulet was intended to prompt her heart to report her character as qualifying to enter the afterlife and to fulfill that role if the heart might fail to weigh as deserving. The piece is currently in... Read more on Wikipedia.

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  4. #4 Scarab of king Tut-E 22807 — 1,401 BC

    seal-scarab of king Tut

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  5. #5 Heart scarab — 1,293 BC

    Egyptian blue amulet of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (New Kingdom), 1292–1191 BCE, in the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy (Cat. 6016)

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  6. #6 Heart scarab — 1,293 BC

    Egyptian blue amulet of the Nineteenth – Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (New Kingdom), 1292–1191 BCE, in the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy (Cat. 6037)

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  7. #7 Scarab-MAHG 027721 — 1,001 BC

    stylised scarab of the Meroitic era

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  8. #8 Scarab-MAHG 027722 — 1,001 BC

    scarab of the Meroitic era

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  9. #9 Scarab-MAHG 027723 — 1,001 BC

    scarab-seal of the Meroitic era

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  10. #10 Scarab-MAHG A 1998-0251 — 1,001 BC

    scarab-seal, possibly Napatean

    source Wikidata