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.

These 5000-year-old Egyptian coffins depict the Milky Way galaxy, astrophysicist says

Source: space
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