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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...