Wednesday, May 11, 2005

They Say That This is What King Tut Looked Like


The Boy King, maybe. Posted by Hello

From The Houston Chronicle:

Three teams of scientists have created the first facial reconstructions of King Tutankhamun based on CT scans of his mummy. The images are strikingly similar both to each other and to ancient portraits of the boy pharaoh, including his depiction on the famed golden mask he wore into the crypt.
The teams — from France, the United States and Egypt — each built a model of the pharaoh's face based on some 1,700 high-resolution images from CT scans to reveal what he looked like the day he died nearly 3,300 years ago.


His eyeliner is fab.

I've seen some stories and posts today on the internet where critics are saying the skin shown in the reconstruction is too light and that King Tut was black.
*Wrong*
He was buried with a donkey, he's my favorite honkey.

See here if you haven't heard that before.

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