Haunting Image of King Tutankhamun

[mopaul]

http://us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/345,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fap%2F20050510%2Fcapt.ny19705102123.mideast_egypt_king_tut_ny197.jpg

the famous king looks at us from across the millenia. this is a reconstruction made by scientists using a catscan of the actual king.

[Spinzonner]

1. And the classic biography

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2408125?htv=12

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. I don't get how they can know what the nose or lips would look like.

It's a fascinating graphic, but how much of his actual face still remained, and how much of that soft tissue is just "a guess"? The makeup is cool, though.

www.cafepress.com/showtheworld

[blogbear]

5. He fell off his 'trike'..

Only kidding, I agree and Tut looks great!

[mopaul]

6. noooo, not him, king tut is what we're talkin' a-butt

[blogbear]

7. I know..I edited my post..Just got caught up in the Chimperor taking a

fall and a hit!

[Warpy]

10. They know the basic shape of muscle and collagen

from the bone underneath. Forensic sculptors can make absolutely uncanny resemblances of people long dead simply by measuring every aspect of a skull, constructing the muscles, and then fleshing it out with cartilage and skin. Often relatives won't be able to recognize a two dimensional drawing of a deceased person, but they do recognize people when they're reconstructed in three dimensions by forensic sculptors.

[kliljedahl]

3. Link to an article?

There has to be an article.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[mopaul]

4. here ya be

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050511/ap_on_sc/king_tut

[kliljedahl]

9. Thanks,

I've never seen a Yahoo article with that much detail.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[supernova]

8. Not a bad looking guy

Give him a backwards baseball cap and he could be any young guy walking around today. :D

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. looks like a white grace jones

..or some other refugee from the the 80s

[CatWoman]

12. actually, he looks like Jeff Gannon in drag