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Research and comment on yesterday's unveiling of King Tut.
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Monday, November 5, 2007
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so the legendary king tut's face was revealed to the public 85 long years after the boy king was discovered by Howard Carter this sunday. its amazing to actually look at a face that has been shrowded in so much mystry. the body was found in terrible condition amazingly with the head still intact buck teeth and all.the head was not the only body part to survive, also the feet and the "royal penis" (Hawass,2007) was intact. it was almost lost in the dessert sand durring the CT scan, but was recoverd (thankfully).
wendy
sorry http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/05/king-tut-mummy.html
Personally i belive that it is truly magnificent that we can still see a face form of a human being that has been dead for 3000 years. Nonetheless, as it was pointed out in the article, all the visitors to the tomb will increase the humidty and therefore destroy what little is left of this golden king.
Perhaps, we should be satisfied with the 3-D images that CT scan produced 2 years ago and leave the young king to peace for eternity.
Haris Silic
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/04/king.tut.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
"The humidity and heat caused by ... people entering the tomb and their breathing will change the mummy to a powder. The only good thing (left) in this mummy is the face. We need to preserve the face," said Hawass, who wore his signature Indiana Jones-style tan hat. In some ways I agree with him and in some ways I don't. Sure, tut is a treasure to their country and should be cherished, but that shouldn't mean not sharing him with anyone else. I think everyone should have a chance to see him and be able to carry that memory with them, even after he's completely gone.
Due to the fragility of King Tut’s body, it’s not expected to withstand the humidity brought by curious tourists. Although his body was placed in a climate-controlled glass box to help preserve his remains in the future, the 3,000 year old body faces a good chance of turning to dust. The mummy’s remains had already been tampered with in 2004 which revealed that his figure was in bad condition; studies showed that he was broken into 18 solid pieces. I think that the revealing of King Tut’s face was a step toward the destruction of his preservation. It’s sad that there is a close guarantee that his remains won’t last, leaving us with one less artifact from the past. But it was probably going to disintegrate anyways so at least we got to see it.
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,"
The boy kings face was acurately reproduced in silicon this week. It is billed as the most acurate depiction of Tut to date. Keep in mind this person lived over 3000 years ago. It is astonishing to think we can gaze through time and see the visage of this mysterios boy who was king.Led by Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, a National Geographic Society team commissioned a team of French experts to create the statue.
Ct scans made this all possible.Finaly these scans were given to a U.S. forensics team who were to work blind to create a reconstruction. Remarkably alike both resturations showjust how far science has come.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0510_051005_tutsface.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041115/tutmummy.html
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