Egypt
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/06/02/etsavvy102.xml This article is less about Egyptology than about heritage management in general, although the author starts with an example in Saqqara, but it raises the issue of whether...
- More On Issues Re Tutankhamun Reconstruction
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- Virtual Unwrapping Of Mummy
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Egypt
Facial reconstruction of Tutankhamun
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
"Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the SupremeCouncil of Antiquities (SCA), announced yesterday theresults of three independent attempts to reconstructthe face of Egypt's most famous King, Tutankhamun. Dr Hawass led the efforts to see what King Tut, whodied over 3,000 years ago, might have looked like inlife. Under his direction, three independentartist-scientist teams, one French, one American andone Egyptian, used modern forensic techniques toreconstruct Tut's face". To see the full article, you will need to scroll down this page quite a long way - it is the fifth and last item on the page, highlighted in blue. The article concludes that the reconstructions are all very similar, except in the interpretation of the ears and the end of the nose. It also has a lot of information about the CT scans already described in detail elsewhere, and says that 5 more mummies are going to be scanned as part of a 5 year project to scan all known mummies in Egypt.
Another article on the same subject, but with images (the French reconstruction, the US reconstruction and some related images, including an original scultpure of Tutankhamun, for comparison), is on the BBC website below. It points out that while the other two teams knew that they were reconstructing the head of Tutankhamun, the US team were not given the identity of the mummy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4535027.stm
Other sites containing much the same information are shown below. None of the sites listed below have any images of the reconstruction other than the French and Egyptian ones shown on the BBC website. None show the US reconstruction, which may appear on one of the other news sites later today - if so I'll add a link.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=637465
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/science/11tut.html?ex=1116475200&en=363d9d05e32fc472&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/11/ntut11.xml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7806495/
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o110525m.htm
(Sorry that this is all so cramped together - for some reason Blogger has suddenly stopped letting me create spaced paragraphs! Hopefully this is just a temporary thing).
- Reconstructed Face Gets Ready For Big Debut Sunday
pal-item.com Since the mummy joined the Wayne County Historical Museum collection nearly 80 years ago, children and adults have imagined the life of the person buried inside the sarcophagus. Advertisement Was the mummy a man? A woman? Recent efforts have...
- Who's Your Mummy?
3 News The face of an Egyptian mummy at Otago Museum has been revealed for the first time in over 2,000 years. The 35-year-old female aristocrat has been part of the museum's collection for more than a century. The facial reconstruction of the mummy...
- It Looks Authentic But Is It Real?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/06/02/etsavvy102.xml This article is less about Egyptology than about heritage management in general, although the author starts with an example in Saqqara, but it raises the issue of whether...
- More On Issues Re Tutankhamun Reconstruction
http://tinyurl.com/7qnhc Yet more on the way in which Tutankhamun has been portrayed: "Even assuming that the sculptor had some scientific basis for determining 'the average' skin color of modern Egyptians, what would that have to do with the...
- Virtual Unwrapping Of Mummy
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5817738.html "Before an eager audience of academics, Egyptologists, technologists and other onlookers, a 2,000-year-old girl had her official coming out party Wednesday. The crowd had gathered at SGI's Reality Center...