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CAIRO, Egypt - The models show a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and his family's characteristic overbite, a weak chin and a pronounced, sloping nose beneath an elongated scalp.

Three teams of scientists have created the first facial reconstructions of King Tutankhamun based on CT scans of his mummy. The images are strikingly similar both to each other and to ancient portraits of the boy pharaoh, including his depiction on the famed golden mask he wore into the crypt.

The teams — from France, the United States and Egypt — each built a model of the pharaoh's face based on some 1,700 high-resolution images from CT scans to reveal what he looked like the day he died nearly 3,300 years ago.

That models, photos of which were released Tuesday, bear a strong resemblance to the gold mask of King Tut found in his tomb in 1922 by the British excavation led by Howard Carter.

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Nice, but Egyptians and other Africans might object that the robot portrait makes him rather lighter than the similar life portrait painted in colours - he has a deeper bronze complexion. There is a lot of Nubian influence in Egypt because it was such a river civilisation

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Edit: Heh, as with all news stories, there's an element of sensationalism. It may be the first reconstruction *based on CT scans*, but it's not the first reconstruction.

[ 12 May 2005: Message edited by: aRoused ]