The man behind the mask.Tutankhamen had just become Pharaoh of Egypt around 1322 B.C. when he died rather suddenly. The young king was in his late teens when his face was immortalized in a golden burial mask. But the Pharaoh we know as "King Tut" might not have been quite as handsome as his mask suggests. CAT-scan images of his mummy have enabled artists and scientists to reconstruct re·con·struct tr.v. re·con·struct·ed, re·con·struct·ing, re·con·structs 1. To construct again; rebuild. 2. his face as it might have looked in real life. They show King Tut with a long skull, a narrow face, and full lips. He also had an overbite overbite /over·bite/ (o´ver-bit?) the extension of the upper incisor teeth over the lower ones vertically when the opposing posterior teeth are in contact. o·ver·bite n. and a weak chin. But he was not lacking in wealth, Many of his treasures are now on display in "Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. through Nov. 15. The exhibit will then go to Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Chicago, and Philadelphia. |
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