100 years ago today, King Tut's tomb was discovered, providing a wealth of information on the boy king. Now we are finally getting a closer look into what he may have looked like ⬇️
One hundred years ago, on Nov. 4, 1922, an archaeological team discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, revealing many"wonderful things" from ancient Egypt, including the boy king's mummy.
A 2010 study of Tutankhamun and other mummies published in JAMA found that Tutankhamun was about 5 feet, 6 inches tall when he died and suffered from a number of medical maladies, such as malaria and Köhler disease, which can cause the feet to swell and impair walking. He also experienced necrosis from a broken bone in his left foot — something that may have contributed to his death.
Hutan Ashrafian , clinical lecturer in surgery at Imperial College London, said Tutankhamun would have walked with a limp, had a slightly longer-than-normal skull, had somewhat enlarged breasts , had buckteeth and been relatively skinny. He was"relatively frail in physique," Ashrafian, who has studied Tutankhamun and his mummy, told Live Science in an interview.
Virtual reconstruction?There have been a number of attempted"virtual" reconstructions of Tutankhamun over the years, but Hawass said he doesn't believe any of them are very accurate. Other scholars also expressed concerns about trying to do a"virtual" reconstruction of Tutankhamun.
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