Found this old scarab today.

This reminded the ancient Egyptians of their god Khepri, who renews the ball of the sun every morning, which is how that dung rolling scarab became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Asser's call received several responses, the most interesting of which was a blog post in solidarity with the cause by Wandering Scarab an Egyptian woman living in Canada