© Radiological Society of North AmericaDetailed surface reformation of right ear conchae. Outer layer in red and high level of transparency is overlaying inner layer with sandy color. The ears bear only thin layers of stucco. They are chiseled with high level of details in limestone. The right canal shows pointed end, (whereas on the other ear the left canal ends bluntly).
"We acquired a lot of information on how the bust was manufactured more than 3,300 years ago by the royal sculptor," said the study's lead author Alexander Huppertz, M.D., director of the Imaging Science Institute in Berlin, Germany. "We learned that the sculpture has two slightly different faces, and we derived from interpretation of the CT images how to prevent damage of this extremely precious art object."
