New Likeness of King Tut on Display

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[Charles Henrickson]

an attractive round-headed youth with full lips

Has Clinton seen this?

[mass55th]

Check out this Discovery Channel link on the face of King Tut:

Tut Face

[Swordmaker]

I think that both of the presented King Tut's are taking too much from the revisionist history that purports that the Egyptian Pharoahs were Negroid.

These "artistic" revisionists, for Politically Correct reasons, have thickened Tut's patrician nose and thickened his lips.

The Discover face was created by people who decided they know more about what Tut looked like 3000 years later than artists who created their masterpiece working either with personal knowledge of Tut's appearance or working from other life studies done while he was alive.

King Tut is one of the few pharoahs for whom we do have completely contemporary likenesses available... so what do these PC idiots do? They decide the Egyptians did not know what they were looking at.

[Swordmaker]

Try this...

Discover's Tut

[Jimmy Valentine]

"King Tut..got buried with a monkey,

King Tut...he's my favorite honkey!" - thanks to Steve Martin.

[johnny7]

Looks like “Tut” is a touch gay. The bugger looks like Cynthia McKinney.

“Born in Babalonia... brazen idols!” HA! ;^D

[Seti 1]

I think that both of the presented King Tut's are taking too much from the revisionist history that purports that the Egyptian Pharoahs were Negroid

I agree entirely. Since pharoahs routinely married daughters of foreign kings to cement treaties, the Egyptian royal families were more diverse genetically than the general population. But Egyptian artists knew how to do portraits and the many pictures of Tut at all ages do not resemble this PC nonsense. The most famous pharoah, Rameses II, had red hair and a very large hooked nose. (His mummy had red hair because it was dyed with henna, but microscopic analysis showed his hair had been red naturally when he was young).

[machman]

Dancin’ by the Nile, (Disco Tut)
The ladies love his style, (boss Tut)
Rockin’ for a mile (rockin’ Tut)
He ate a crocodile.

[Darth Dan]

But it bears little resemblance to the golden funeral mask found in the pharaoh's tomb.

Duh! That's because the funeral mask is gold! ;)

[machman]

I thought he looked like this.

[WIladyconservative]

Dancin’ by the Nile, (Disco Tut)
The ladies love his style, (boss Tut)
Rockin’ for a mile (rockin’ Tut)
He ate a crocodile.

Funky Tut . . . . great - thanks a lot! Now I'll be humming that ditty all day long!

[WIladyconservative]

The king took the throne at the age of nine after the death of his father Akhenaten at age 18.

Anyone know how old Tut's mommy was if Daddy was only 9 when Tut was conceived?

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Born in Babalonia,

got a condo made of stone-a"

[aruanan]

The king took the throne at the age of nine after the death of his father Akhenaten at age 18.

Pretty funny wording. A case of pharoahs having pharoahs.

[aruanan]

King Tut is one of the few pharoahs for whom we do have completely contemporary likenesses available... so what do these PC idiots do? They decide the Egyptians did not know what they were looking at.

Got that right. But it's commonplace for many people to think that the contemporaries of almost anything in ancient history did't know what they were seeing or talking about.

[SunkenCiv]

a bttt, 2004 bump, with a newly minted related topic link:

X-ray attempt to find out why Tutankhamen died
CNN.Com - Science & Space
Saturday, November 13, 2004 Posted: 10:51 PM EST (0351 GMT) | Reuters
Posted on 11/13/2004 9:03:24 PM PST by F15Eagle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1279466/posts

[GreenHornet]

He coulda won a Grammy.......buried in his jammies

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