[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.

[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).

[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.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

From the contemporary depictions I’ve seen of Tut’s grandmother, she was most certainly Negroid. So in the case of Tut, maybe we shouldn’t blame pc-istic revisionism.
And while I don’t keep up with these things much, I believe there’s at least a lock of her hair in a jar somewhere. Should be easy to connect the DNA links, if it hasn’t already been done.