King Tut brought back to life in ‘most realistic recreation ever made’ of Pharaoh’s face

Genetic studies of Tutankhamun’s mummified corpse have indicated that the Boy King was likely extremely frail, beset by several strains of malaria and bone disease — likely the result of inbreeding, with his parents having been found to have been siblings.

Various hypotheses have been put forward for the cause of the Boy King’s death, including the culmination of his illnesses, a leg-fracturing fall and severe malarial infection; succumbing to sickle cell anaemia; and the result of a chariot crash.

Regardless, following his premature death, the young Pharaoh was entombed in a burial site in the Valley of the Kings, sent to the afterlife accompanied by more than 5,000 grave goods including statues, weapons, chariots and, of course, his gold and jewel inlaid death mask.

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and its opulent contents in late 1922 — by excavators led by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter — inspired so-called ‘Tutmania’, which came in the form of a media frenzy and a fad in the West for Egyptian-inspired design motifs.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1707655/king-tut-tutankhamun-pharaoh-face-reconstruction-most-realistic-prince-philip