The amulet of the scarab has been found in Egypt in untold thousands, and the varieties are exceedingly numerous. They are made of green basalt, green granite, limestone, green marble, blue paste, blue glass, purple, blue and green glazed porcelain, etc.; and the words of power are usually cut in outline on the base.
Dulcimer, stringed musical instrument, a version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
The hammered dulcimer has, as do some of its other zither relatives, a trapezoidal-shaped sound box with metal strings running parallel to the long side of the instrument in sets called courses of 2 to 4 strings each.The strings are divided into unequal lengths by at least 2 long, high bridges.ersions of the dulcimer can be found today all over the world, in Europe, in China, in Scandinavia, in Persia, in Egypt, in Mexico, and in the U.S. As a result, there is a variety of music that can be and is played throughout the world on the hammered dulcimer in its various forms.