Posted on 09/30/2002 10:03:56 PM PDT by Asmodeus
LONDON (AP)--A fiberglass bust that purportedly shows the true face of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun went on display Monday at London's Science Museum.
The likeness was crafted as part of an investigation into how the teenage pharaoh died more than 3,000 years ago.
The fiberglass cast of Tut's head, based on computer models generated from 1969 X-rays of his mummified corpse, shows an attractive round-headed youth with full lips. But it bears little resemblance to the golden funeral mask found in the pharaoh's tomb.
The opulent tomb of Tut, who died around 1350 B.C., was found almost intact by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. His glittering death mask and golden coffin are among the most famous Egyptian artifacts in the world.
For a documentary to be screened in October, investigators led by Provo, Utah, police chief Greg Cooper and Mike King of the Utah Attorney General's office traveled to Egypt and examined Tutankhamun's tomb, as well as the 1969 X-rays.
They say the disheveled state of the artifacts in the tomb suggested Tutankhamun's burial was done hurriedly and haphazardly, while the X-rays revealed evidence of a blow to the back of the head.
They examined the cases against four suspects in the king's death--Ay; his wife and half sister, Ankhesenamun; his treasurer, Maya; and his army commander Horemheb.
Their verdict will be revealed in a documentary about the investigation, to be broadcast on British television on Oct. 9. An article published in the Sunday Times said the team points the finger at Ay, who married Tutankhamun's widow and succeeded him as pharaoh.
Forensic scientists led by Salt Lake City chief medical examiner Todd Grey say the X-rays show that Tutankhamun probably suffered from spinal disorder that fused together vertebrae in his neck and would have made him dependent on a cane to walk. More than 100 walking sticks were discovered in his tomb.
The king took the throne at the age of nine after the death of his father Akhenaten at age 18. The cause of Tut's death has long been debated, with theories ranging from hunting accident to murder.
Can someone explain this?
everyone is still counting on their fingers. ;)
just a small bump.
360 degree viewable image:
http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/kingtut/face/facespin.html
BBC (link from Richard Poe's website):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2288952.stm
Richard Poe page about this:
http://www.richardpoe.com/forum.cgi?article=&x=2003-03-02+06:47:11
barely related GGG topic:
First Lion Mummy Found in Tomb of King Tut's Wet Nurse
Tampa Bay on line | Jan 14, 2004 | Alex Dominguez, Associated Press
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“an attractive round-headed youth with full lips
Has Clinton seen this?”
Which Clinton? We have to keep track of three now.
Wouldn’t a funerary mask have been cast from modeling clay or wax impression and therefore be the most accurate likeness compared to a computer recreation?
I always thought that the golden mask looked like MJ after his plastic surgery.
Click The Pic Now when he was a young man he never thought he'd see (King Tut)
People stand in line to see the boy king (King Tut)
How'd you get so funky (funky Tut)
Then you'd do the monkey
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut)
Now if I'd known the line would form to see him (King Tut)
I'd take up all my money and buy me a museum (King Tut)
Buried with a donkey (funky Tut)
He's my favorite honky
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut)
Dancing by the Nile
Ladies loved the style (waltzing Tut)
Rocking for a mile (walking Tut)
He ate a crockodile
He gave his life for tourism
Golden idol
He's an Egyptian!
They're selling you
Now when I die now don't think I'm a nut
Don't want no fancy funeral just one like old King Tut (King Tut)
He coulda won a grammy (King Tut)
Buried in his jammies
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia
Born in Arizona got a condo made of stone-a (sic) King Tut)
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.
Amenhotep III, father of Akhenaton, supposed father of Tut, did not take a foreign princess for his Great Royal Wife. Tiy, who became the mother of Akhenaton, was a commoner. Common to where, isn’t exactly clear.
Not sure who the mother of Tut was, but the usual hypothesis is a secondary wife of Akhenaton, named Kiya. Last I heard, nobody has any clue where she came from, Egypt or elsewhere, royalty or peasantry.
In any case, a Google image search of Tiy or Tiye will show you a typically African Negroid lady.
Quick! BURY IT!!!
i’m sorry, but does NO ONE see the resemblance to our current president?
Have they determined who his mother was? Kiya or Nefertiti...
Akhenaten ruled for 17/18 years, he was NOT 18 when he died regardless of what this article says!
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