King Tut's Penis Rediscovered

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King Tut's Penis Rediscovered
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

May 3, 2006 — King Tutankhamun's rediscovered penis could make the pharaoh stand out in the shrunken world of male mummies, according to a close look into old pictures of the 3,300-year-old mummified king.

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Photographed intact by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during Howard Carter's excavation of Tut's tomb in 1922, the royal penis was reported missing in 1968, when British scientist Ronald Harrison took a series of X-rays of the mummy.

Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold.

"Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in the sand around the king's body. It was mummified," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News

Something for the portly gentlemen to ponder...

..He's my favorite honky."

"Had a condo made of stone-a..."

What's a 45? ;)

:cry:

that Steve Martin is one wild and crazy guy! I always loved his "arrow through the head" kind of dumbness.