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Old 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 --

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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.
Unusually shaped indeed:

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Old 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.
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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?
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Old 05-11-2005, 12:01 PM   #7
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He looks kind of pretty. Or is it just Middle-eastern/north african features??
As an astute friend of mine pointed out, he looks like j.lo.

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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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).

The shape of a baby's head is pretty maleable so be careful what silly hats you dress yours up in.
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 05-11-2005, 01:56 PM   #13
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J Lo?? Not in a million...
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Old 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?)
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Old 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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