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.
hahahahahahaha!
Wow, almost a twin. /sarc
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