THE King Tutankhamun revealed after millennia as scientists ‘reconstructed’ his face, revealing a Pharaoh who looks more like a “young disciple” than a king. His features brightened at once international team academics from Brazil, Australia and Italy using a digital model of his mummified skull.
The reconstruction reveals the youthful and “thin” aspect of one king who was still a teenager when he died more than three thousand years. Because the international team did not have direct access to the Pharaoh’s skull, the completion of the new model was particularly difficult.
THE Tutankhamun, who was worshiped as a god during his lifetime, died in 1323 BC. and was succeeded by his adviser, Ay.
Fortunately, previous studies had already recorded skull measurements and published reference images. Mr Moraes said: “It was a difficult taskwhere traces of information came together as they were linked together to give us a three-dimensional model of the skull,” he noted.
“With the ratio data and some important cephalometric measurements, it was possible to take the digital skull of a virtual donor and adjust it to become Tutankhamun’s skull.” From there, Mr Moraes said, they recreated “the size of the lips, the position of the eyeballs, the height of the ears and the front size of the nose”.
“All these predictions are based on statistical studies performed on CT scans of living individuals from many different origins,” he noted. Markers were then applied to the skull showing the thickness of the soft tissues at various points, using data from modern Egyptians as a guide. With these and other techniques, the face was gradually “rebuilt”. Then subjective elements like the eye color for further humanization.
However, it is not the first time that scientists have tried to rebuild the likeness of the young Pharaoh – another attempt was made in 2005, reports the Daily Mail. Michael Habicht, an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia who co-authored the new study, noted the striking similarity between the two reconstructions.
“Our representation is surprisingly similar to the one a French team did a few years ago. It also corresponds with ancient depictions of Tutankhamun, especially the head on the lotus flower from his tomb,” Moraes said.
Source: News Beast
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