LONDON MUSEUM DISPLAYS NEW LIKENESS OF KING TUT.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  October, 2002  

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A fiber glass and plastic composite bust, said to show the real likeness of King Tut or Tutankhamen, went on display at The Science Museum in London. The FRP cast of Tutankhamen's head, based on computer models generated from 1969 X-rays of his 3000-year-old mummified corpse, shows an attractive, round-headed youth with full lips.

This likeness looks nothing like the well-known golden funeral mask found in the pharaoh's tomb. Tutankhamen died around 1350 B.C. and his ...

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