Looking to the stars for constellations that preside over birth and life has a long and complex history, and archaeologists have just uncovered a small piece of it.
depicting the vulture-headed goddess Nekhbet and the snake-headed goddess Wadjet as birds with outstretched wings.,"but these have usually faded or even disappeared totally as a result of external influences."The Temple of Esna, the team says, is unique in the range of figures covering its walls, and the preservation of the colors, underneath all the grime.
Even amid this profusion of colorful figures, though, the depiction of zodiac signs is an interesting surprise. It's thought that the ancient Greeks introduced the zodiac to Egypt, and it seemed to become very popular, but only in certain contexts.
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