The scarabs could stay alive for years eating flesh, and when thrown into a sarcophagus or other enclosed space with a human would eat away at the human's flesh more slowly. The shell of the scarabs could harden into stone-like casings in which the scarabs would await their next victim. Scarab swarms, while unstoppable by humans armed with only guns, could be impeded or even halted with fire. Small, navy-shelled insects with wing-cases, the scarabs fed on human flesh, living or dead, and would appear at times in temple corridors in great swarms, reducing any in their path to bones. The scarabs appeared in the City of the Dead, Hamunaptra, where they were used in the ritual of the Hom-Dai, and were worshipped by the ancient Egyptians as the bringers of the sun. Scarabs are small, carnivorous insects that eat the flesh of whatever creature they could catch, particularly humans. – Evelyn Carnahan explaining the scarab biology. Scarab skeletons, flesh eaters.They can stay alive for years, feasting on the flesh of a corpse. A fellahin digger got eaten by scarabs crawling out of his body.
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