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 from ancient Egypt. Some depictions of ...

Read More: Ancient Humans and Their Early Depictions of the Cosmos Graur's conclusion based on the Egyptian art examination supports earlier work based on his studies of previous research ...

More information: Or Graur, The Ancient Egyptian Cosmological Vignette: First Visual Evidence of The Milky Way and Trends in Coffin Depictions of The Sky Goddess Nut, Journal of Astronomical ...

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 study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Gilded coffin lids from the Pharaonic era, gold funerary masks and what's believed to be fragments of Queen Hatshepsut's ancient temple were among the 25 items accepted in Cairo on Monday.

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 ...