The Vatican Museums have unveiled a new exhibit of artifacts dedicated to a figure from Ancient Egypt. The Charm of Sekhmet is the continuation of a project that began in 2017. It studied statues of the ancient goddess Sekhmet, or Lioness, that were given to the Vatican Museums in the 1800s. The Vatican exhibition features around 2 dozen sculptures. They are believed to be thousands of years old dating back to several centuries before Christ. Curator of the Vatican Museums’ Department of Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities, Alessia Amenta, joins to tell us a little more about this project and why these statues are so important. Alessia shares how the Vatican Museums first obtained the sculptures. She fills us in on what more she can tell us about the Sekhmet statues and what she hopes people learn from this new exhibit.
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