Who is that handsome young man? via
Boing Boing, it's
King Tut! They did CT scans of his mummy and reproduced the gent --
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Using a skull shape determined by hundreds of recent CT scans, three groups of researchers have independently produced busts showing what Egypt's King Tutankhamen probably looked like on the day of his death about 3,300 years ago.
The three images show the 19-year-old boy-king as a rather delicate young man with chubby cheeks, an unusually shaped head and a receding chin.
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Unusually shaped indeed:
05-11-2005, 10:28 AM
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