This was not a king who held a staff just as a symbol of power. This was a young man who needed a cane to walk. Tutankhamun's bone disease was crippling, but on its own would not have been fatal.

While not proven, King Tut was believed to have a club foot, cleft palate, bone disease and scoliosis. Some experts have ...

and a susceptibility to disease, which likely contributed to his early death. One of the more peculiar discoveries about King Tut was that he was mummified with an erection, a possible symbolic ...

Unlike King Thutmose II's sparse tomb, King Tut's burial site was filled with ... Carter himself died in 1939 from Hodgkin's Disease aged 64.

Carter himself died in 1939 from Hodgkin's Disease aged 64. No royal tombs had been uncovered since King Tut's until last week when archaeologists discovered King Thutmose II's burial site.

If you can’t make it to Egypt, head to Washington, D.C., where “Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures” puts visitors inside the artifact-stuffed rooms of King Tut’s tomb. It’s been a ...

For the first time in over a century, a royal Egyptian tomb has been uncovered by archaeologists. The tomb was uncovered in 2022, but has only now been confirmed as the final resting place of King ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known, was the last of his dynasty of pharaohs. He ruled as a boy only for a short time. He is most famous because his tomb was discovered almost intact and ...