The face of young Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun has come to life after teams of scientists reconstructed it by CT scans of the Egyptian boy king.

Photos of the models they created were released in Cairo and bear a close resemblance to a gold mask of King Tut that was found in the pharaoh's tomb in 1922.

Three teams worked separately on the project, including French, Egyptian and American.The French team's model shows a young man with soft features, a sloping nose and an overbite, but all three teams came up with very similar models. According to Egyptian scientists, the shape of the face and skull are remarkably similar to a famous image of Tutankhamun as a child where he was shown as the sun god at dawn rising from a lotus blossom.

Theories abound that Tutankhamun, who died around 1323 B.C., was either murdered by a blow to his skull or killed in an accident that crushed his chest. Experts say there's no evidence to support those theories.

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