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.

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

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 ...

The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of priceless artifacts — some of which experts now believe were previously overlooked.

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 ...

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.