Unmasking Tut.

• Position: ANCIENT EGYPT - Brief article

Judging from his golden burial mask (right), you might think King Tut was a real looker. But a new study by the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy, suggests that the boy pharaoh was pretty homely. Researchers used 2,000 CT scans of his mummy to create a virtual reconstruction of Tut, who who ruled ancient Egypt from about 1333 B.C. to 1323 B.C. The results: He had buck teeth, curvy hips, and a clubfoot. DNA testing revealed that he probably also had a genetic bone disease and a...