Inside a sealed room at Karnak sits Sekhmet — and being there in person was nothing like standing before a statue. Everyone in our group felt it: electric air, tunnel vision, pins and needles, ...

Kicking off this year’s Egypt adventure with a closer look at the Sekhmet statues. While they appear identical at first glance, subtle differences begin to emerge when examined carefully. The details ...

She is Sekhmet—"the one who is powerful"—the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and bound by thick rope. As the workers heave her out of the pit and onto a ...

With the body of a woman and the head of a lioness, the ancient goddess Sekhmet was the protector of pharaohs, the patroness of physicians and the commander of diseases and plagues: able to cast them ...