It’s the summer Milky Way time. This summer, on a clear night, find a dark site away from city lights. Wait 20 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark. Look towards the south and see if you can ...
An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running through her body. This depiction is thought to illustrate the Great Rift, a band ...
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Ancient Egyptians Decorated Tombs With Paintings Of The Milky Way, Indicating A Link With Their Sky Goddess
Ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs decorated with starry paintings indicate that the sky goddess Nut was linked to the Milky Way galaxy. For a long time, Egyptologists have believed that Nut was ...
Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum (© Odessa Archaeological Museum, photo by Mykola Tarasenko) The sky has been a ...
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