Joseph Starr of South St. Paul wrote Whistleblower last week to express disappointment that the King Tut mummy in repose at the Science Museum of Minnesota is a "facsimile." "All of the local advertisements tout the falsehood that King Tut is at the exhibit," he said. Science Museum spokesperson Kim Ramsden said "we've never made the claim that we have King Tut's actual mummy. [It] has never left Egypt." "What is at the museum is a replica based on CT scans of the actual mummy done by the National Geographic [Society] a few years back. … It was designed by an artist who works with 3D imaging technology." In what Whistleblower considers high praise for a replica of a 3,300-year-old corpse, Ramsden added, "It's very lifelike."
