What sort of weirdness would the Egyptian God of Toilets get up to? The strangest-looking Ancient Egyptian god might surprise ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study led by an astronomer sheds new light on this connection. Depiction of the ...

With more temples than any other ancient Egyptian goddess, Hathor stands as one of the most powerful ... popular, cow-like deities like Bat. Hathor was often depicted as a human woman with a large ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars ... While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians understanding the Milky Way, others examples ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

The Ancient Egyptian Cosmological Vignette: First Visual Evidence of the Milky Way and Trends in Coffin Depictions of the Sky Goddess Nut Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...

A new scientific study has revealed a direct symbolic connection between ancient Egyptian beliefs and the Milky Way galaxy ... which includes a detailed painting of a goddess stretching across the lid ...

In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins dating back nearly 5,000 years. Combining astronomy with Egyptology ...