Tutankhamun does not deserve this 21st-century desecration | Jonathan Jones

Computer-scan images of the real boy pharaoh are crass and morbid. Archaeological techniques should be used to enhance our understanding of the past, not destroy its mysteries

Leave poor Tutankhamun alone. Hands off the boy king. Let him sleep his eternal sleep in the dignity of his golden mask.

If there really was a curse of the pharoahs, then scorpions and scarab beetles would surely be crawling right now into the pants of those responsible for archaeologys latest attack on the dignity of the dead. A virtual autopsy of Tutankhamun has revealed as one report has it The REAL face of King Tut. That face turns out to be distinctly unhealthy looking, with bad teeth (shock) in the digitally constructed image of a young man whose congenital problems in a world without modern medicine probably decided his short life span. As the same headline continues, Pharaoh had girlish hips, a club foot and buck teeth

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