Statue of fiery goddess Sekhmet goes on display at Cairo Airport Museum

A stone statue of the goddess Sekhmet, which dates back more than 3,000 years to the New Kingdom era, has gone on display at Cairo International Airport Museum — Terminal 3.

The deity, whose name translates as “Powerful One,” had the body of a woman and the head of a lioness, topped with a sun disk and a cobra. She was the daughter of the sun god, Ra, and regarded as fierce and vengeful.