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05-11-2005, 10:28 AM | #1 | |
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5/11/2005: King Tut revealed
Who is that handsome young man? via Boing Boing, it's King Tut! They did CT scans of his mummy and reproduced the gent -- Quote:
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05-11-2005, 10:54 AM | #2 |
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Nice pic... here's what he looked like based on a sculpture from his tomb:
http://62.18.33.91/fotoweb/Preview.f...BC9638B08C635D And art from the Amarna era showed his family with similar enlogated heads http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ma...aten_stela.htm (Akhenaten was Tut's father, or brother, or half-brother, depending on which theory you buy.) There has been much controversy over how much the bizarre art style of this period reflected reality and how much it was a result of Akhenaten's general peculiarty. |
05-11-2005, 11:23 AM | #3 |
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is it just me or are the eyes on the first shot a little freaky?
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05-11-2005, 11:40 AM | #4 |
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anyone else see a resemblance to Barbara Steisand in the first one?? wow.
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05-11-2005, 11:47 AM | #5 |
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Well . . .they still yanked his brains out through his nose with a hook on a stick.
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05-11-2005, 11:50 AM | #6 |
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He looks kind of pretty. Or is it just Middle-eastern/north african features??
But wow, how did they reconstruct him? I always think this is like some kind of magic. I mean, taking a skull and making a face of it? |
05-11-2005, 12:01 PM | #7 | |
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Those are chubby cheeks?! Geez. Would that make Kate Moss (circa 10 yrs ago) and Chris Robinson the only ones without chubby cheeks? |
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05-11-2005, 01:22 PM | #8 |
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This cracks me up. I was watching a special on how they do this stuff on discovery channel, and they take lots of measurements of modern people from the same geographic area and then average it, and then apply the evidence of peculiarities, and then make the rest up.
It's like when they try to recreate dinosaurs. We don't know if they had green scales, brown scales, grey scales, a combination, or what, but yet museums say "This is what they looked like." Riiiight. Actually, this is what your artists THINK they looked like. They *could* have been purple with pink polkadots. We don't have a CLUE. They just assume that modern reptiles look like dinosaurs did, and apply that color scheme. Sheesh. That's not science, folks. That's art.
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05-11-2005, 01:32 PM | #9 |
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I think that you wouldn't have to look hard in a museum for the notice that the color of the dinosaur is conjecture. Recently, this fact is even more prominent, with artists' renditions of dinosaurs being given more and more garish and exciting coloring.
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05-11-2005, 01:37 PM | #10 |
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I wonder if the strange head shape came from molding the head as a baby. That sort of thing was practiced in some cultures (at least I remember mention of this in my anthro class many years ago).
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05-11-2005, 01:38 PM | #11 |
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In this case I think you also have to consider that there are probably a few hundred depictions of Tut from his tomb. Even given that there are questions about how realistic representations of the royal family of this period are, that's got to have some influence on the reconstuctors--I've got to think any ambiguity or "close call" in the data would be consciously or unconsciously resolved in favor of giving him a look similar to that of the known statuary and paintings. (Unless you just found somebody who had never ever seen any pictures of anything from the tomb.)
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05-11-2005, 01:39 PM | #12 |
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I was also thinking of the same thing, that perhaps that shape was considered pleasing at the time..
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05-11-2005, 01:56 PM | #13 |
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J Lo?? Not in a million...
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05-11-2005, 02:37 PM | #14 |
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It's certainly not unheard-of for ruling families to have anatomical abnormalities. Consider the "Hapsburg chin", for instance.
But what's with the eye makeup and lack of facial hair? Tutenkhamen was young, but not too young to shave, and I never heard he was into drag... (OK, OK, I know the makeup probably reflects practices of the time. But what about the facial hair?) |
05-11-2005, 03:03 PM | #15 |
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Is that dot on his ear supposed to be a mole? How in the hell are they getting information to indicate that?
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