The Legacy of Tutankhamun
The Ancients
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The Evolution of Tutankhamun's Legacy
In the 70s there was a real focus on the objects on the gold and with time there has been maybe a slightly misguided attempt to humanise the King through facial reconstruction CT scans. I suspect that's impossible because we simply don't have the evidence surviving for him as an individual. The real success of Tutankhamun is that he is really still a household name you know of any Egyptian pharaoh comparable to Cleopatra perhaps.
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