Recently I read somewhere that the skull of King Tut was scanned and special software reconstructed the mans face into what they claimed was an accurate portrayal of what he looked like. The resulting image I recall was very life like.I was wondering if this technology has been used on more recent skulls, where there exists real photographic evidence to compare the accuracy of the results?
Forensic anthropologists often make facial reconstructions based around casts of the skulls of unknown crime victims, both computer models and actual sculptures.
Ah thanks, was looking specifically for reconstruction images compared to actual photos, found some by adding the term ‘forensic’ to the search
The basics are that give a known racial profile (also determinable from the features ON the skull), they use “standard thicknesses” of muscle, fat, etc. over the skull at certain points, then fill in the gaps. From this you can get a fairly accurate analysis of what they looked like prior to decomposition.
please link to your results
sorry, heres a link:
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/jan2001/phillips.htm
It only shows comparisons of clay models,I still would like to see how accurate computer scans are, but there seems to be nothin on this. Maybe its not all that accurate? (the final woman in the link above is pretty close, interesting that they nailed her hairdo too)
thanks. I have seen some on TV. I must say that police men see the world through different eyes. They get good IDs from models and sketches I would never had said were even close to the actual person.
Here’s a link to an article on the Tutankhamun reconstruction, with a picture of one of the reconstructions.
They gave the CT scans to three different teams - two knew who the subject was, and the third team didn’t. Apparently all three teams produced very similar reconstructions.
And in related news, the team that did the CT scan appears to have found Tut’s missing penis, which must be a relief to his ka.
He’s in the afterlife, and he’s got all those nymphets that entertain Pharaoh-gods who died young, and he’s, like, going, “Dude! where’s my penis!”
:smack:
What’s up with King Tut’s weird shaped skull. Looks like he’s got a conehead. Did ancient Egyptians shape their heads??
The same odd shape shows up in the art work representing the Pharaoh Akenaten, who may have been Tut’s father or uncle. There’s some thought that it was an unusual, hereditary formation of the skull.
In art class, they said that they purposely shaped the skulls that way to represent the God-like qualities or something. There have been a couple other cultures where they used boards or bandages to change the shape of the skull.