Using data from 2,000 C.T. scans of his mummy and other research material, a BBC show in 2014 came up with an updated view of an enduring mystery: what killed the ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun?

But it was the image the program makers created of what the legendary pharaoh probably looked like that deeply shocked viewers.

That’s because it’s a representation that clashes harshly with the beauty of Tutankhamun’s funerary artifacts.