King Tut's Missing Penis Not Really Missing Afterall.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else, Toy & Video Games, Travel & Places on May 4, 2006 at 2:09 am


King Tutankhamen’s penis – long thought to be missing, turned out to be there all along…

From the website:

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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4 comments to "King Tut's Missing Penis Not Really Missing Afterall."

  1. Miss Cellania
    May 4th, 2006 at 7:30 am

    There's a joke in there somewhere... "It took 30 years and a CT scan to find his penis."

  2. Loopy Loo
    May 4th, 2006 at 5:45 pm

    Tut, in the afterlife, is saying, "See? I told you it was there!"

  3. LOLA
    October 24th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    WOW! THATS WEIRD

  4. Jung R
    May 18th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    I don't think that you have found the petrified penis of a Peruvian prince, rather,
    I think that someone might have crept into your crypt and crapped.
    RJ


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