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.
Boy George !
Do you really want to hurt him?
I really want to make him cry.
Chin implant ...
I thought he would look like Steve Martin.
GGG Ping.
GGG ping
They left the wart on his nose off.
SunkenCiv would have been disappointed if I didn't post this picture of his hero.
“He gave his life for tourism.”
Steve Martin in Roxanne, maybe. :p
All that family (related to Akenaten) had misshapen heads.
It must have been an inherited birth defect—maybe from too much inbreeding over many generations(pharoahs had to marry their sisters).
Some speculate that it was Marfan Syndrome
Boy George
I thought the infants born into the family had their skulls purposely bound to create that distinctive head shape.
Very similar.....
Yikes
I watched Discovery Channel specials tonight on his recent (past six months) work to identify the mummy of Hatshepsut using equipment on loan from Siemens and advanced DNA testing methods.
Pretty cool stuff, if you ask me.
Robin Williams replied with”Yes we do”
King Tut (King Tut)
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)
Did you do the monkey
(Born in Arizona)
(Moved to Babylonia, King Tut)
(King Tut) Now, if I'd known
They'd line up just to see him (Funky Tut)
I'd trade in all my money
And bought me a museum (King Tut)
Buried with a donkey (funky Tut)
He's my favorite honkey
(Born in Arizona)
(Moved to Babylonia, king Tut)
Dancin' by the Nile (disco Tut)
The ladies love his style (boss Tut)
Rockin' for a mile (rockin' Tut)
He ate a crocodile
He gave his life for tourism (King Tut)
(Tut, tut, tut, tut)
Golden idol
(Tut, tut, tut, tut)
He's an Egyptian
(Tut, tut, tut, tut)
They're sellin' you (King Tut)
Now, when I die
Now don't think I'm a nut
Don't want no fancy funeral
Just one like ole King Tut (King Tut)
He coulda won a Grammy (King Tut)
Buried in his Jammies
(Born in Arizona)
(Moved to Babylonia)
(He was born in Arizona)
Got a condo made of stone-a
King Tut
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He looks like a Meerkat.
I took this off the TV special on this 2 years ago -
He probably looked like Assad of Syria(The pencil necked geek).
I don’t know about the face but, for some reason, Rudy Guilianni popped into my mind.
Ahhhh! My iiiiiiiis! My iiiiiiis!
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Thanks Blam and BlackVeil. Last I heard, when this was in the planning stages, Hawass was yelling about the presence of a nearby casino, and said there would never be any Egyptian antiquities displayed anywhere near it. |
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King Tut hit by the curse of the dome
Sunday Times | December 24, 2006 | Dipesh Gadher
Posted on 12/31/2006 12:03:00 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1760506/posts
Plans for a grand exhibition of the teenage pharaoh’s treasures at the venue have been thrown into doubt because Egyptian officials will not allow the artefacts to be displayed next to a proposed casino... “If there is a casino in the dome, I will not send the exhibits to London,” declared Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. “It’s insulting. These Egyptian artefacts have dignity and therefore we should keep this dignity. I will never — [even] if they give us a billion dollars — show an Egyptian exhibit next door to a casino.”
Tut’s ear placement looks normal - this primitive specimen has the ears of an imbecile.
Kinda looks like Jaye Davidson. /Stargate
Twins. Barbra has Egyptian ancestry? or does the young King Tut have Hebrew ancestry?
Probably will look like the would-be boy-king Edwards.
No say! Assad's momma let him sleep too much on his back, hence the nickname of "Flathead"....Tut's got a bullethead.
“Tutankhamun’s True Face To Be Revealed”
What? Did Helen Thomas find her high school yearbook?
Whoa.
King Tut was Barbara Streisand. I was unprepared for that.
The Independent (UK)
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 22 October 2007
The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.
Speculation surrounding Tutankhamun's death has been rife since his tomb was broken into in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter. X-rays of the mummy taken in 1968 indicated a swelling at the base of the skull, suggesting "King Tut" was killed by a blow to the head.
More recent studies using a CT medical scanner, however, revealed he suffered a badly broken leg, just above his knee just before he died. That in turn probably led to lethal blood poisoning. Now further evidence has come to light suggesting that he suffered the fracture while hunting game from a chariot.
The new findings are still circumstantial but one of Egypt's leading experts on Tutankhamun will say in a television documentary to be screened this week that he believes the case is now solved on how the boy king met his sudden and unexpected end.
(Go to the site to read the reat of the article)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Yeah! That was my first thought when I saw the header, “Tutankhamun’s True Face To Be Revealed.”
Again?
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