The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have been hiding in plain sight in art ... in the ancient Egyptian pantheon ...

Cutting between the stars on her body weaves an undulating, black curve that runs from the tips of her toes to the tips of her fingers. The ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut as depicted on the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

One was femininity: in ancient Egyptian art, Wegner said ... One side of the stela shows a bent-over Nut — here with star-spangled blue skin — framing the central scene of a woman approaching ...

The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw ... of Nut depicted across 555 Egyptian coffins from nearly 5,000 years ago. While often illustrated as a naked woman clad in stars, certain examples stood ...

The coffin depicts a wavy line across Nut’s star-covered body. This feature “recalls the Great Rift that cleaves the Milky Way in two,” according to the paper. Although the feature appears to be rare ...

In order to tell time once the sun set, the ancient Egyptians identified 36 groups of stars in the night sky and used their positions to gauge the hour. Known as decans, each one was associated ...

AN UNEARTHED observatory has revealed the advanced knowledge of the stars ... Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The discovery confirms the the ingenuity, skill and knowledge of the ...

The star dance, at top left ... In this way, and through their depictions in ancient Egyptian tomb art, dances meant to ensure life after death for Egyptians have achieved their own kind of ...