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 ...

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 ...