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The Egyptians would have discovered the Milky Way more than three thousand years ago, according to a study by archaeologist or Graur, from the English University of Portsmouth.
File photo. Image of the Milky Way of the European Observatory Austral (ESO), captured with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). Free press: EFE/ European Observatory).
The astrophysicist and writer Or graur, He is a professor of astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation of the University of Portsmouth in England.
Several studies have argued that the Milky Way was a representation of NUT, the former Egyptian goddess of heaven, but Graur in his study He tested this assumption.
In his investigation Graur compiled and observed 555 elements of coffins with 118 cosmological bullets of the XXI and XXII dynasties, which passed from 1070 to 945 AC and from 945 to 715 ac
This is how the astrophysicist discovered that the cosmological vignette in outer coffin of Nesitaudjakhet presents a unique feature: a thick and undulating black curve that divides the nut’s stellar body and remembers the great crack that divides the Milky Way into two.
And resembles the characteristics identified as the Milky Way in the bodies of the spiritual beings Navajo, Hopi and Zuni.
This is how Or Graur determines and argues that the undulating curve in NUT’s body is the first representation of the Milky Way identified in the Egyptian Archaeological Registry.
In a previous investigation, Graur himself had concluded that although NUT and the Milky Way are linked, they are not synonymous.
