King Tut, Totally Intact -- King Tut's Penis Rediscovered

Discovery News ^ | May 3, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi

[SunkenCiv]

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... 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... According to the mummy expert, it is not possible to see if King Tut was circumcised or not.

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[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, no pictures.

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[NormsRevenge]

Sorry, no pictures
.. uhh.. OK. :)

[trubluolyguy]

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

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See that lump in my sock? It's not my wallet.

[Old Sarge]

"King Tut: Un-cut!"

I can see it now...

[NormsRevenge]

well, maybe one pic. :-)

Tut: "HEY! Where'd it go?"


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[Dallas59]

Did Tut have a wife?

[Treader]

...and the DC testicle search continues...

[Proud Conservative2]

Man this entire topic is SICK...you'd think people would have better things to worry and wonder about than King Tut's penis..LMAO!

This is a sick, demented world.

[A CA Guy]

Did Elaina Bobbit Tut through it out of the chariot?

[A CA Guy]

through = throw

[Proud Conservative2]

"...and the DC testicle search continues..."

They ought to abandon that search, it's a real waste of time...LOL

Last I heard the testicles were hiding out with the spines in an undisclosed location.

[Capn TrVth]

Zahi Hawass is just finding new and creative ways to ring the register.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

the royal penis was reported missing in 1968, when British scientist Ronald Harrison took a series of X-rays of the mummy. In 1996, the royal penis was discovered in the United States, on a table in the White House living quarters next to a stack of Rose Law Firm billing records.

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy" —Bill Clinton, looking at an Incan mummy at the National Geographic museum

[Eaker]

Too funny!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did he check his "Members Only" jacket?

[ahayes]

Well thank goodness. I was so worried!

[Physicist]

Every inch a king.

[carlo3b]

HA! I can't wait until my ex-wives get similar news 50 years from now.. Talk about Shock and Awe.. :)...Ba da BOOM

[sauropod]

Zahi Hawass - the Howard Stern of archaeology.