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Article: Black activists upset over King Tut portraits.(Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt's portraits at Museum of Art )(Brief Article)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- October 20, 2005
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.
Black activists say the computer-generated portraits of King Tut that are scheduled to go on display at a museum exhibit in December wrongly depict the young Egyptian ruler as White.
Teams of researchers reviewed recent CT scans and forensic data of the mummified corpse to create the images. They show him with light, medium and dark skin, says Terry Garcia, executive vice president for mission programs at National Geographic Society, an exhibit co-sponsor.
"No one really knows his exact skin tone," Garcia says. "There is no way to judge a skin tone. We went down the middle. We took the best science available."
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