The man behind the mask.

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Tutankhamen had just become Pharaoh of Egypt around 1322 B.C. when he died rather suddenly. The young king was in his late teens when his face was immortalized in a golden burial mask. But the Pharaoh we know as "King Tut" might not have been quite as handsome as his mask suggests. CAT-scan images of his mummy have enabled artists and scientists to reconstruct his face as it might have looked in real life. They show King Tut with a long skull, a narrow face, and full...