Tutankhamun was a battle-hardened warrior and not the sickly boy-king of legend, experts have claimed.<br /><br />It has entered historical folklore that Egypt's most famous king was frail and deformed, with a club foot.<br /><br />He was buried with around 130 complete and fragmented sticks of various shapes and designs, which have been suggested to be walking sticks to help with his mobility.<br /><br />But three experts on ancient Egypt have told Cheltenham Science Festival this week that such an assumption could be wrong.<br /><br />Sofia Aziz, a biomedical Egyptologist, said: 'When I studied Tutankhamun, I personally don't think there was any evidence he was disabled, because I have seen mummies where it looks like there is a club foot.<br /><br />
