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SteveDallas · 05-11-2005, 10:54 AM

Nice pic... here's what he looked like based on a sculpture from his tomb:

http://62.18.33.91/fotoweb/Preview.f...BC9638B08C635D

And art from the Amarna era showed his family with similar enlogated heads

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ma...aten_stela.htm

(Akhenaten was Tut's father, or brother, or half-brother, depending on which theory you buy.) There has been much controversy over how much the bizarre art style of this period reflected reality and how much it was a result of Akhenaten's general peculiarty.

05-11-2005, 10:54 AM	#2
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Nice pic... here's what he looked like based on a sculpture from his tomb: http://62.18.33.91/fotoweb/Preview.f...BC9638B08C635D And art from the Amarna era showed his family with similar enlogated heads http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ma...aten_stela.htm (Akhenaten was Tut's father, or brother, or half-brother, depending on which theory you buy.) There has been much controversy over how much the bizarre art style of this period reflected reality and how much it was a result of Akhenaten's general peculiarty.