King Tut's Penis Rediscovered

[Hissyspit]

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060501/tutpnis_arc.html?source=rss

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

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[Caoimhe]

1. But... is it bigger than Clintons? Does it bend to the left or right?

32% (the backwash) of Americans want to know...

[wtmusic]

2. That settles it...I'm going to be cremated nt

[babylonsister]

4. ROFL! nt

[Freedom_Aflaim]

3. Wow, You cant make up stuff like this ::

"the royal penis was reported missing in 1968"

[0007]

5. Would that be illegal to have in Alabama? Or South Carolina

[derby378]

6. Anyone who HAD stolen the penis would be a real weenie

:evilgrin:

[shain from kane]

7. The royal penis? Remember "Coming to America" w/ Eddie Murphy.

Who would steal a penis and sell it? Who would buy it?
I know that there is an infamous anecdote about Napoleon's penis for sale at an auction.

From the internets,

"Sad to say, for such a great French lover, he is buried without his penis. It was purloined after his post-mortem in 1821 by a priest. In 1971, the withered shrunken member came up for auction in London but was with­drawn from bidding after failing to reach the reserve price."

[xchrom]

8. matcom had it.

[shain from kane]

9. Is it true that the boy king was boinking? n/t

[Kailassa]

10. So it was thought to be missing for 38 years,

and then found to have been there all along.

I guess my "is it in?" ex must have been a direct descendant.

[TheLeftyMom]

11. ROFLMAO

Thanks, needed a laugh this morning!

[YDogg]

12. I'm so sorry.

:blush:

[Hissyspit]

13. Annoying Self-Kick n/t