King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh, was frail and lame and suffered "multiple disorders" when he died at age 19 about 1324 B.C., but scientists have now determined the most likely agents of death: a severe bout of malaria combined with a degenerative bone condition.

Scientists have now determined that the boy pharaoh most likely died of a severe bout of malaria combined with a degenerative bone condition.

Some believe he was a victim of the boy pharaoh's revenge.

"Tutankhamen's curse" claimed another victim nearly 3,300 years after the death of the boy pharaoh (1324 BC).

He knew that if he did not rid himself of this challenge to his throne, if he did not crush the boy pharaoh before he attained his full strength, then soon the rebellions and insurrections would spread through his entire realm.

His hands, the knuckles red and scratched, were folded on his chest like a boy pharaoh.

The big story emerging from yesterday's report on a DNA study of King Tutankhamun and eleven other Egyptian mummies was that the boy pharaoh may have died from the combined effects of malaria and "avascular bone necrosis," or bone degeneration.

The decorations were put in place by Tutankhamun: the boy pharaoh is depicted, but his names have been replaced with those of Horemheb.

He glared across the courtyard at the boy pharaoh.