Tutankhamun
The Ancients
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The Legend of Tutankhamun
Egyptian statuary is not portraiture, it's very much showing the propaganda that the king wants to convey. We make a big mistake if we try and imagine that people look like the statues because they didn't necessarily, they might have done a bit. It's supposed to inspire the people, inspire the gods so you might want to appear as a young king. Tutankhamun doesn't want to be depicted as anything different, I think he's very traditional. If you've just come from a religious experiment that hadn't really gone well, you would want to be very, very traditional in your church.
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