Taken from today’s CBS News in Chicago:
The blogosphere is abuzz about an ancient Egyptian bust at the Field Museum that seems to be a spitting image of Michael Jackson.
The Chicago Sun-Times’ Michael Sneed reported Wednesday morning on the bust, which dates from the New Kingdom Period between 1550 B.C. and 1050 B.C., and has been on display at the museum since 1988.
The statue was off exhibition at the Field Museum for nearly 100 years, but now stands near the “Inside Ancient Egypt” exhibit, according to the Sun-Times.
People were noticing the resemblance of the limestone bust to Jackson for quite some time before the pop star died.
In a posting to the photo sharing site Flickr.com on Nov. 8, 2007, a St. Louis woman going by the handle mandalariangirl posted a photo of the bust. She gave it the title, “Ancient Egyptian woman or Michael Jackson?”
“It’s uncanny,” mandalariangirl wrote on Flickr. “Maybe Michael saw this and told his plastic surgeon, “make me look like this!”
Could Jackson have used the statue as a model for his own face? A museum spokesman told Sneed he had “no idea whether Jackson ever visited the museum, but called the resemblance between Jackson and the statue “astounding.”
So what do you think?