Treating’ Amulet Unearthed in Turkey With Crab Motif and Healing Inscriptions Excavations conducted in the ancient city of ...

“Such inscriptions in amulets were usually written in Greek or Hebrew,” he noted. And while little is known about the man who was buried with the amulet, scientists reportedly believe that he ...

The amulet features a crab, which is believed to represent cancer. The ancient Greek word for crab, "karkinos", is the origin of the modern word for the devastating disease. Well-wishing ...

First, the use of Latin was surprising. Most inscriptions from similar amulets at the time used Greek or Hebrew. Also, the fact that the amulet contained a hidden message and was considered important ...

The amulet caused great excitement because it included an early Christian symbol known as the Chi-Rho, a monogram of the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek. Shepton Mallet's theatre was ...

Dr Roberta Mazza, a Research Fellow of the recently established John Rylands Research Institute came across the Greek ‘amulet’ while working on thousands of fragments of unpublished historical ...