Is this the face of Tutankhamun?
A team of American, Aegyptian, and French scientists have worked with deep scans of King Tut's mummy to produce three different yet similar versions of what he may have looked like, mostly with differences of the nose and ears (the soft cartilage areas). The images also show that ancient portraits in line with the actual body's features. The face shows a young man with chubby cheeks and his family's overbite, with a receding chin. They also believe that rather than a blow to the head, he may have been killed by gangrene setting in quickly after suffering a broken leg. They also discovered that he was a healthy 19-year-old who had not suffered childhood illnesses that left any lasting effects and was about 5' 6".
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The French is probably the most life-like attempt; the US one was done without any knowledge of whose skull it was from which they worked.
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