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Tutankhamun's True Face To Be Revealed
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 10-22-2007
| Nigel Reynolds
Posted on 10/21/2007 8:41:09 PM PDT by blam
Tutankhamun's true face to be revealed
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:55am BST 22/10/2007
The true face of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago, is to be revealed to the public for the first time.
Only a handful of experts have ever seen Tutankhamun's true likeness
To coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the treasures of Tutankhamun in London next month, Egyptian archaeologists are to put his mummified body on display in Luxor.
Only a handful of experts have ever seen the 19-year-old pharaoh's true likeness.
Though not the most important of Egypt's ancient rulers, Tutankhamun has exercised a strong pull on the Western imagination since the discovery of his virtually intact tomb by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922
Dr Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's archaeological services, who arranged the London exhibition, says that displaying the mummy will help to preserve the remains.
He intends to remove the mummy from its original golden sarcophagus which lies in a stone sarcophagus and place it in a climate-controlled plexiglass case in the antechamber of the tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
After the last of a series of investigations and tests by a team of scientists in 2005, a three-dimensional reconstruction was made of the king's face from CT scans. They showed the young king to had an unusual flat head, a large nose and a protruding upper jaw.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; ancientautopsies; ancientegypt; earlofcarnarvon; egypt; face; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; howardcarter; kingtut; revealed; tut; tutankhamun; tutankhmuns
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10/21/2007 8:41:10 PM PDT
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blam
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:43:09 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:44:24 PM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
To: blam
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:44:46 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: fieldmarshaldj
Do you really want to hurt him?
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:45:27 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I really want to make him cry.
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:46:32 PM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
To: blam
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:51:40 PM PDT
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BunnySlippers
(Buy a Mac ...)
To: blam
Barbra Streisand?
To: blam
I thought he would look like Steve Martin.
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10/21/2007 8:54:22 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: SunkenCiv
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10/21/2007 8:54:22 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: SunkenCiv
To: blam
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posted on
10/21/2007 8:56:16 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
They left the wart on his nose off.
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10/21/2007 8:59:24 PM PDT
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org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: SunkenCiv
SunkenCiv would have been disappointed if I didn't post this picture of his hero.
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posted on
10/21/2007 9:00:44 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
“He gave his life for tourism.”
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10/21/2007 9:02:06 PM PDT
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PennsylvaniaMom
(I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
To: Moonman62
Steve Martin in Roxanne, maybe. :p
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10/21/2007 9:07:48 PM PDT
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Politicalmom
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To: Politicalmom
All that family (related to Akenaten) had misshapen heads.
It must have been an inherited birth defect—maybe from too much inbreeding over many generations(pharoahs had to marry their sisters).
To: CondorFlight
"It must have been an inherited birth defect—maybe from too much inbreeding over many generations(pharoahs had to marry their sisters)."Some speculate that it was Marfan Syndrome
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10/21/2007 9:22:20 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: LibFreeOrDie
Barbra Streisand?Boy George
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10/21/2007 9:26:59 PM PDT
by
genew
(Fact: Political correctness is a deadly social disease.)
To: CondorFlight
I thought the infants born into the family had their skulls purposely bound to create that distinctive head shape.
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10/21/2007 9:31:41 PM PDT
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Kirkwood
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