The three -year -old in Israel recently made an important archeological discovery.

The baby, a nitzan nitzan, hiked with his family last month to dirt about 25 miles outside Jerusalem, when her little rock attracted her attention. She was attracted to that, she said in an interview that her mother had been translated from Hebrew because “he had teeth on it.”

Of course, the alive picked it up. When she was rubbing her dirt, “she noticed that it was something very special,” said her mother’s dawn Nitzan.

The obtained gravel has proven to be a 3,800-year-old Egypt amulet, engraved by insect design known as a scarab and exhibits from the Bronze Age, According to Israel’s Antiques Administrationwhich later collected it.

It is not the first time a young mountaineer has come across an archeological treasure in Israel, given his rich history.

Last year, while hiking on the Carmel Mountain in Haifa, a 13-year-old boy Found a ring from the Roman era with the engraving of the goddess Minerva. In 2016. The seven-year-old boy on a trip with friends in the Beit Valley revealed a well-preserved, 3.400-year-old carving a naked woman. And many sharp -eyed children discovered coins made during the period Roman or Hasmoneean rule.

But Ziv is the youngest child who is known to have discovered an ancient artifact in Israel, said Yoli Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the Antiquity Administration, who called the finding “very exciting.”

Ziv found a relic near Tel azekahThe archeological place and area described in the Bible as the place of the battle between David and Goliath.

The amulet most likely belonged to the Canaani, a group of Semitic people who lived in the area around 1800 BC, said Odeed Lipschits, professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University who leads excavation in Tel Azekah. Canaani, like others in the region, were interested in all Egyptian things, he said, and they often imported or mimicked their food, style and luxury objects – including seals like the one who found alive, who were carried as jewelry as personal talismans.

Scarabs, or purulent bugs were particularly popular in the Talismans at the time because they were a symbol of re -birth, according to a statement by the Directorate for Antiquity. (Insects laid eggs into pus balls, from which a new generation comes out.) The ZIV relic of Scarab was most likely created in Egypt, and then found its way to modern Israel about 3800 years ago, Mr. Lipschits said.

But how did it end on a hiking track where the child could find it?

Mr. Lipschits offered an explanation.

In 1898, two British archaeologists began to excavate tel azekah-in one of the first biblical sites exhumed in Israel-they found the Acropolis, the walls of the Citadela and Artefakatas from the pre-Israeli cultures. When they were done, the man who owned the land asked them to fill the hole they had dug so he could grow the area, Mr. Lipschits said.

“So the modern layers are now inside, and the old layers that were once very deep in the ground are now on the surface,” he explained. “And that’s why people on the surface can find all kinds of ancient items like these scarabs.”

Children also make excellent amateur archeologists, Mr. Lipschits added, because they are curious, low on the ground and are not afraid to dirty.

By itself, the amulet who picked up “was not so extraordinary,” said Mr. Lipschits – his team discovered dozens of similar scarabs in the area, some of the better ones. What is more important, he said, is that the family handed over to the Israeli antique administration so that it could be preserved and everyone could enjoy it.

“If she put her in her pocket and kept it, we wouldn’t know about it,” Mrs. Schwartz said. “We are very happy to show that to the public.”

The government gave a certificate of “good citizenship”. The amulet she found will be included in the upcoming exhibition of Canaanita and Egyptian artifacts at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for Israeli archeology in Jerusalem.