Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

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.

Scientists Just Found the First Evidence of the Milky Way on an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus A goddess of the sky may contain even more multitudes than previously believed.

A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization of the Milky Way galaxy's Great Rift.

The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw virtually every aspect of existence, with gods and goddesses representing mundane daily activities all the way up to the cosmos itself. But the sky-goddess Nut ...

After comparing their descriptions with simulations of how the Egyptian night sky looked during those eras, Graur published an initial study in 2024 arguing Nut and the Milky Way were intertwined ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

Nut (pronounced “newt”), the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky, was often depicted as a slender naked woman covered with stars and arched over the earth in a protective downward dog-like stance.

Rare Egyptian skull sheds light on ‘fearsome’ new 30-million-year-old leopard-sized predator The species, known as Bastetodon and named for an Egyptian goddess, had sharp teeth and an ...

Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part of ancient life. So much so, in fact, that there are said to be over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon. And while a select few of these mythical ...