An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...

If you look above and behind it, you'll see an undulating curve that may represent the Milky Way galaxy. . | Credit: Photo ...

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

The Milky Way may have been painted across ancient Egyptian coffins thousands of years ago—and now, one scientist believes he ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest-known depiction of the Milky Way in coffin art depicting the Egyptian sky goddess Nut ...

Ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs decorated with starry paintings indicate that the sky goddess Nut was linked to the Milky ...

Her body is covered in stars, and there is "a thick, undulating black curve that bisects Nut's star-studded body and recalls the Great Rift that cleaves the Milky Way in two," Graur wrote in the ...

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 ...

This depiction is thought to illustrate the Great Rift, a band of dust and gas that appears to split the Milky Way in two. While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians ...