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Today millions have viewed Tutankhamun's treasures but questions remain over how the teenage king died. Now with the aid of forensic techniques we may be closer than ever to understanding this ...

By carrying out CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy, we were able in 2005 to show that he did not die from a blow to the head, as many people believed. Our analysis revealed that a hole in the ...

Best-selling author James Patterson takes a break from his Alex Cross novels to open the cold case of King Tut. Working with nonfiction author Martin Dugard, the two men investigate the death of the ...

King Tutankhamun’s ... III had no such modification. Tutankhamun, plagued with health issues, likely had a clubfoot, cleft palate, and bone disease. He died at 19, possibly from an infection ...

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 ...

Tutankhamun, or King ... He died around the age of 18, possibly from malaria, and was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun married his half-sister but their children did ...

But why were the scarf and rings in the wooden chest, and how did they ... pharaoh died centuries before the Iron Age began ...

he died in his late teens. He was the son of Akhenaten, who while king introduced monotheism to society and introduced a less popular deity, which Tutankhamun reversed, according to Scientific ...