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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.

Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been nearly 20 years in the making.

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 ...

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Several scholars have suggested that the Milky Way was linked to Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky who swallowed the Sun as it set and gave birth to it once more as it rose the next day.

However, it was unclear what role the Milky Way played in Egyptian religion and culture. A recent study by an astrophysicist from the University of Portsmouth sheds light on the relationship between ...

Astronomical simulations and ancient Egyptian texts show the Milky Way was linked to the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut. This fits within multicultural myths about our home galaxy ...