These scarabs vary in size from 5/8" to 1" and are a brilliant blue.

Scarabs are featured prominently in Egyptian art and Egyptian religion. The scarab was seen as a symbol of life and rebirth. Stone versions of the scarab were often placed in the tombs of the pharaohs as a symbol of their rebirth into the afterlife. A scarab amulet was worn over the heart as a replacement heart in the afterlife (as the real heart was removed in the mummification process.