As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.

Or Graur, associate professor of astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth, analyzed 125 representations of Nut. These paintings, dating back 5,000 years, reveal previously unknown details about ...

Nut, the Egyptian sky goddess, went beyond representing the firmament above. She was the entire cosmos. Often depicted standing over her brother Geb, the Earth, she appears as a woman covered in ...

The research comes from the University of Portsmouth, where Dr. Graur’s team explored how the Milky Way might have been represented by the ancient Egyptians. The focus was on the sky-goddess Nut, a ...

In these depictions, Egyptian goddess Nut can be seen arching over the Earth god Geb, forming the sky. With her hands and feet touching the horizon, her body forms a protective dome over the world.

But the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced “Noot”) had one of the most important roles. Nut literally stood over her earth god brother, Geb, protecting him from the void’s floodwaters.

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 ...

Depictions of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess found on tombs and coffins dating back almost 5,000 years may represent a key feature of the Milky Way. After analyzing hundreds of images of the ...