Photo: Egyptian Temple Yields 17 Statues of Lion-Headed Goddess

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An Egyptian worker cleans a newly discovered 3,400-year-old statue in Luxor, Egypt, on March 12, 2006.

A team of German and Egyptian archaeologists discovered 17 statues of the goddess Sekhmet as they were draining groundwater near the ruins of the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Photograph by Aladin Abdel Naby/REUTERS

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