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.

In 2014, King Tut's golden death mask suffered damage during routine cleaning at the Egyptian Museum. The beard, a symbol of pharaonic divinity, accidentally detached and was hastily reattached ...

Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by ... They turned to ancient symbols as a way of using past glories to promise future success. Tutankhamun declared a wehem mesut, and ...

Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered by archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings on Nov. 4, 1922, was found loaded with treasures. Some of those artifacts, like his death mask, are widely known.

The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 remains one of Egyptology's most significant archaeological finds. Now, more than a century later, researchers have made only the second discovery ...

Tutankhamun, otherwise known as King Tut, is often regarded as one of ... Cleopatra might be another notorious Ancient Egyptian — but the symbol of the ancient civilization wasn’t Egpytian ...