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

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include ... Milky Way is a cosmological phenomenon, just like the sun and stars, that can appear along Nut's body in her role ...

She also was pivotal to the solar cycle, swallowing the sun at dusk only to rebirth ... Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy, such as the Pyramid Texts ...

In funerary art, she typically appears as ... VI, and IX.” Ancient Egyptians believed that Nut swallowed the sun each evening and gave birth to it again at dawn. For this reason, her arched ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

Their disk shape resembled the sun on the horizon ... In this way, and through their depictions in ancient Egyptian tomb art, dances meant to ensure life after death for Egyptians have achieved ...

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 ...