Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Council, announced the results by the French, American and Egyptian teams that each worked independently to create likenesses of the youthful King who died more than 3,000 years ago.

    Commenting on the results, Hawass said, "In my opinion, the shape of the face and the skull are remarkably similar to a famous image of Tutankhamen as a child where he is shown as the sun god at dawn rising from a Louts blossom."

    The teams based their efforts on the more than 1,700 high- resolution images collected using a portable CT scanner in January this year. The mummy was scanned at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, where it has lain since 1978 when it was X-rayed.