Whatever flaws King Tut inherited in this life ... 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 ...

CT Scanning equipment by Siemens AG; Data courtesy, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Arab Republic of Egypt; National Geographic magazine, June 2005 Inside King Tut's subterranean burial ...

After analyzing King Tut's remains, researchers found genetic evidence to suggest he met his untimely end in part due to repeated bouts of malaria. This mosquito-borne illness is treatable today ...

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 ...

An archeologist notes that King Tut's chamber was designed and decorated differently from other Egyptian pharaohs. One theory is that his tomb was originally created for a member of the opposite sex.

The famous Boy King pharaoh, Tutankhamun, ruled Ancient Egypt from around 1332 - 1323 BC ... Tutankhamun's gold funerary mask, now preserved at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, remains a popular symbol ...

In King Tut's burial chamber ... from the Nile River and known as the "Eye of Horus." It was a "powerful symbol of regeneration and overcoming evil, including death." The four troughs and four ...

Indeed, Tutankhamun’s mummified remains were themselves symbolic. “The king was being shown as Osiris, more so than was usual in royal burials,” Brown wrote in the paper. “To literally ...

Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent ... significant looting in the Valley of the Kings. Tut’s tomb may even contain further secrets—during the ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris. As its name suggests, this ritual is ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of ...