This is her bloodthirsty story. The myth of Sekhmet dates back to Egypt’s Old Kingdom. One of the earliest references to her can be found in the mortuary temple of Nyuserre Ini, an ancient ...

she says as a worker hoses off the mud and salt coating a Sekhmet lined up with a dozen similar statues in the bright sun. Egyptologists had long assumed that all that remained of the temple ...

"We know from the hieroglyphs that Mer-Neith-it-es worked in the Temple of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess. There are some clues in hieroglyphs, the way the mummification has been done ...