Tut is a miniseries depicting the life of King Tutankhamun. Due to both conjecture on certain aspects of his life and death plus Rule of Cool, there are some breaks from actual history.
- Many of the characters are depicted as having full heads of hair, while it was custom in Egypt for both men and woman to shave their heads. Generally they wore wigs instead of growing their hair out. While it isn't a stretch to believe that some of the Egyptians grew their hair out, since numerous mummies (some of them royal) have been found with their hair grown out, Tut, however, was not one of them, as his mummy is bald.
- Anyone who's used to imagining Pharoah Tutankhamun as a sickly, disabled "Boy King" would believe that this series depiction of Tutankhamun as a warrior means that this trope was being heavily used; while there's no real evidence that Tutankhamun ever led any significant campaigns against the Mittani, there is, however, plenty of evidence that is still being uncovered to this day that suggests that Tutankhamun was indeed a warrior king who fought battles.
- Ironically enough, it was Horemheb who would be credited with restoring Egyptian power in the region.
- Though the series acknowledge the role of Akhenaten and how his death influenced events in Tutankhamun's life, it gets a number of details about him wrong.
- Akhenaten is depicted as having his capital in Thebes, when he actually had the capital moved to his newly built city at Armana. A more minor example in how he also refers to his daughter as "Ankhesenamun" when he was believed to have named her something along the lines of Ankhesenpaaten, due to his veneration of Aten (she likely changed her name after her father's death as Tutankhamun did).
- The series portrays Akhenaten as being poisoned, and though no one is entirely sure how he died, the most accepted position was natural causes. Though considering his actions, and how unpopular he likely was, the idea of him being poisoned is certainly not implausible.
- Tutankhamun's seven vertebrae were actually fused together meaning he couldn't turn his head. Despite this, he is shown turning his head many times rather than just turning his entire torso in order to look at someone or something.
- Tutankhamun also can seemingly walk completely unaided and with no obvious limp or strange gait. An x-ray has shown that he likely had a club foot which would have impaired his mobility. It is even thought he couldn't walk without the use of a cane as over 100 walking sticks were among his burial goods, with some showing obvious signs of use. However as a child Tut is shown to walk with a slight limp as a possible allusion to this fact.
- The Mittani are portrayed as the enemies of the Egyptian Empire, though by the time Tut took the throne, they had since been conquered by the Hittites, who became Egypt's new primary rival for regional dominance.
- Ankhe mentions that she has had two stillborn children with Tut in the past but she refers to them as "sons". King Tut was found buried with two foetus mummies who were DNA tested and found to be his children with Ankhesenamun but they were daughters, not sons.
- Tut's full name as spoken in episode two is: Nesubiti Nebkheperure Tutankhamun. However, in real life a pharaoh had five names asssociated with them (with only the throne name and personal name being carved into cartouches). For Tutankhamun, his full royal name was: Ka-nakht-tut-mesut (Horus Name), Nefer-hepu-segereh-tawy, (Two-Ladies or Nebty Name), Wetjes-khau-sehotep-netjeru (Golden Horus Name), Nebkheperure (Throne Name), and Tutankhamun (Personal Name). Translated it means: The strong bull, pleasing of birth One of perfect laws, who pacifies the land Elevated of appearances who satisfied the gods, Lord of the forms of Ra, The living image of Amun. Try to Fit That on a Business Card, indeed.
- There were historically two pharaohs between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Smenkhare, either a brother or son of Akhenaten, and a woman named Neferneferuatan. Neither individual appears and instead Tutankhamun is his father and maternal uncle's immediate successor.
