Ancient humans depicted astronomical events, like the Pleiades star cluster, in cave paintings and on artifacts. The Nebra Sky Disk, from around 1600 BC, is the oldest known depiction of astronomical ...
The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have been hiding in plain sight in art from ancient Egypt. Some depictions of the ...
An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of Portsmouth Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Dr. Or Graur to uncover what he ...