Forensic Reconstruction is not only used to determine the face of a number of ancient human skeleton. The face of Pharaoh Tutankhamun is also revealed through such methods.
Using high-resolution Siemens CT scanner, French and Egyptian scientists took 1.700 most famous image of the mummy. Not only provide health information and cause of death of the young king, scanning data also reveal the face of the Pharaoh.
Research conducted in 2005 was successful in uncovering how the shape of King Tut's face when he died around 3.300 years ago. That process involves a number of forensic artists and physical anthropologists of the two countries. The result is limited to the statue of the king's chest.
Using CT scanning data, French forensic anthropologist Jean-Noel Vignal, of the Centre Technique de la Gendar-merie Nationale, making prototype models of the skull. Vignal, who daily work with police to reconstruct the face of crime victims, ensuring that the mummy's skull is 18-20 year-old man with Caucasian features or groups of people from Europe, North Africa, and India.
Using high-resolution Siemens CT scanner, French and Egyptian scientists took 1.700 most famous image of the mummy. Not only provide health information and cause of death of the young king, scanning data also reveal the face of the Pharaoh.
Research conducted in 2005 was successful in uncovering how the shape of King Tut's face when he died around 3.300 years ago. That process involves a number of forensic artists and physical anthropologists of the two countries. The result is limited to the statue of the king's chest.
Using CT scanning data, French forensic anthropologist Jean-Noel Vignal, of the Centre Technique de la Gendar-merie Nationale, making prototype models of the skull. Vignal, who daily work with police to reconstruct the face of crime victims, ensuring that the mummy's skull is 18-20 year-old man with Caucasian features or groups of people from Europe, North Africa, and India.
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| Using CT data from scans of Tut made in January, a French team worked with National Geographic magazine to create a model of Tut's skull, which then was turned into an accurate, likelife face by one of the world's leading anthropological sculptors, Elisabeth Daynes of Paris. Her flesh-toned silicone cast was embellished with realistic glass eyes, hair, eyelashes and even the eye makeup that adorned the king as he was in life. French, American and Egyptian teams, under the director of Zahi Hawass of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, each created a separate reconstruction of Tut's face. (Picture from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/) |
From these data, Vignal and his team measured the facial features of a variety of Pharaoh. Map of the skull was handed over to the world's leading anthropological sculptors, Elizabeth Daynes of Paris. Daynes task is to combine science and art of Tut's face to produce the most accurate and as close as possible to the original.
In addition to using maps Vignal, Daynes uses archaeological information from the Board of Antiquities of Egypt, including two wooden statues of Tut's youth. Daynes used tissue depth information to embed the clay on a plastic skull model to form a human face to detail, including the thickness of the eyebrows and nose and lip shape, and the shape and size of the ears of Pharaoh.
Of the plastic model, Daynes make prints and create a model of colored silicone. He used his glass eye and put up hair with high precision. Skin color varies from very dark to light, based on skin color of the Egyptians at this time.
To validate the work of Daynes and his team, other teams were given a similar task: to make a statue of Tut's face from CT scan data. Susan Anton, an anthropologist at New York University, and Bradley Adams of the Medical Office Examiner study the data.
In addition to using maps Vignal, Daynes uses archaeological information from the Board of Antiquities of Egypt, including two wooden statues of Tut's youth. Daynes used tissue depth information to embed the clay on a plastic skull model to form a human face to detail, including the thickness of the eyebrows and nose and lip shape, and the shape and size of the ears of Pharaoh.
Of the plastic model, Daynes make prints and create a model of colored silicone. He used his glass eye and put up hair with high precision. Skin color varies from very dark to light, based on skin color of the Egyptians at this time.
To validate the work of Daynes and his team, other teams were given a similar task: to make a statue of Tut's face from CT scan data. Susan Anton, an anthropologist at New York University, and Bradley Adams of the Medical Office Examiner study the data.
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| With the same CT data from scans of Tut, this is a American team's Tut Reconstruction Result. (Picture from: http://guardians.net/) |
Without knowing the identity of the person, Anton directly describing it as a young man aged 18-19 years and the descendants of Africans with some Caucasian features. Michael Anderson, an artist from the Yale Peabody Museum, then create a statue of the mysterious figure.
Reconstruction of both teams turned out to produce a statue of a face that has a high similarity. Although it is impossible to know exactly how the face of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's true, either the form of nose, ear, and eye color and skin.
Reconstruction of both teams turned out to produce a statue of a face that has a high similarity. Although it is impossible to know exactly how the face of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's true, either the form of nose, ear, and eye color and skin.
"The shape of the face and skull is very similar to the image of Tutankhamun as a child when he was introduced as the god of the sun," said Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. *** [SCIENCEDAILY | KORAN TEMPO 3694]
