Meet King Tut

By at 7:47 am Wednesday, May 11

Media Photo 2005-05 17512891 Using data from CT scans, researchers in France have created a model of King Tutankhamun as he looked shortly before dying at age 19.
The work was based on sophisticated CT scans of the mummy taken Jan. 5 in his tomb at Luxor in the Valley of the Kings. CT scanning, typically used for medical diagnoses, can be used to produce three-dimensional images.

Those scans showed that Tut was a healthy, well-fed young man at the time of his death and yielded no evidence of foul play.


Link (Thanks, Ernest!)

Mark Frauenfelder

My latest book, Made by Hand, now in paperback. Follow me on Twitter.

Comments are closed.

Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.