In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Various Egyptian gods are either associated with ... In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins dating ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Or Lev elaborates: “The first answer is representation in art, so we included reliefs ... and animals in the ancient Egyptian religious world (as amulets and manifestations of gods and goddesses). “We ...

A new scientific study has revealed a direct symbolic connection between ancient Egyptian beliefs and the Milky ... While star motifs have long been recognised in Egyptian art, this new study is the ...

The study focuses on how the Egyptian Sky Goddess Nut has been depicted in several settings ... Although the feature appears to be rare in ancient Egyptian coffin art, it has been seen in other ...

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Nut is the goddess of the sky. In funerary art, she typically appears as a nude, star-spangled woman, her body protectively arching up and over the earth god Geb.

Yves-Bernard Debie, a noted private collector of Roman and Egyptian antiquities and a partner in the Brussels-based law-firm Matthys & Debie, brings a legal perspective to the often opaque world of ...