Moreover, DNA tests suggested he had suffered from malaria multiple times, which, coupled with his other health issues, may have led to his premature death at approximately 18 or 19 years old.

Tutankhamun breakthrough after 'unexpected' DNA results emerge from tests on Boy King Egyptologists were met with a huge "surprise" after tracing the familial ties of Tutankhamun's parents.

For more than a century, Egyptologists have debated King Tut's cause of death. But a DNA analysis has brought them closer to understanding what killed the boy king.

Scientists had used DNA to identify various members of Tutankhamun's immediate family, but they came upon something they were not prepared for. Narrator Dallas Campbel explained: “The DNA ...

In 2007, the reconstructed face of Tutankhamun was revealed to the public for the first time since he died as the 12th and last pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He is believed to have reigned from ...

That Nefertiti may have been Tutankhamun’s mother is not a complete shocker. She was married to Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, after all — his Great Royal Wife and chief consort. Moreover ...

King Tut was a frail teen with a cleft palate who walked with a cane and died of malaria – not murder, according to scientists who studied the famous Pharaoh’s DNA. The Egyptian boy king who ...

Object Details author Hawass, Zahi A. Subject Tutankhamen King of Egypt Notes AFA copy 39088019605591 Gift from Janet Stanley. Contents The golden age of Egypt: Dynasty 18 -- Religion and life after ...

When a state-of-the-art DNA analysis of Tutankhamun and other ancient Egyptian royals was published last year, its authors hailed it as “the final word” on the pharaoh’s family tree.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—Past interpretations of the genetic closeness between Tutankhamun and his father Akhenaten suggested that Tut’s mother had to have been an unknown aunt. But French ...

Scientists had used DNA to identify various members of Tutankhamun's immediate family, but they came upon something they were not prepared for. Narrator Dallas Campbel explained: “The DNA results ...

'Unexpected' Tutankhamun discovery after DNA results used to trace Boy King's family The Boy King is one of Egypt's most iconic pharaohs after the discovery of his tomb in 1922.