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Meet King Tut

 Media Photo 2005-05 17512891 Using data from CT scans, researchers in France have created a model of King Tutankhamun as he looked shortly before dying at age 19.

The work was based on sophisticated CT scans of the mummy taken Jan. 5 in his tomb at Luxor in the Valley of the Kings. CT scanning, typically used for medical diagnoses, can be used to produce three-dimensional images.

Those scans showed that Tut was a healthy, well-fed young man at the time of his death and yielded no evidence of foul play.

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