The quartzite head of a princess—possibly Meritaten, the daughter of King Akhenaten—displays an unusual skull shape, most likely a family trait exaggerated by the artistic style of the period. King Tut—her half brother or uncle—definitely had a long, narrow skull, but it was not deliberately deformed. "The Egyptians did not head bind," explains Ray Johnson, director of the University of Chicago's research center at Luxor. Neither was the shape of Tut's skull the result of disease, say the experts who analyzed the CT images. It simply falls within the normal range of human variation.
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