In the beginning, only a boundless expanse of water known as Nun existed. Within this watery abyss, Atum, the self-created ...

At the 2017 Game Awards, Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced that their follow-up title was In the Valley of Gods - an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The focus was on the sky-goddess Nut, a figure commonly found on Egyptian coffins, and her connection to stars, the sun, and maybe even our galaxy. In ancient Egyptian culture, many gods and goddesses ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

Depiction of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut swallowing the sun. Credit: Hans Bernhard. CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons/Hans Bernhard A new study suggests that ancient Egyptians may have captured the ...

The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw virtually every aspect ... activities all the way up to the cosmos itself. But the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced “Noot”) had one of the most important ...

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

The study focuses on how the Egyptian Sky Goddess Nut has been depicted in several settings over time. The goddess was often portrayed as a naked, star-covered woman arching over the Earth, often ...

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. In a recent study, astrophysicist Or ...

Credit: Francis Dzikowski / Theban Mapping Project The goddess Nut, whose name is pronounced “Noot,” frequently appears in Egyptian funerary texts and decorations as a naked, star-covered, arched ...