Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Raiders of the Lost. . .um, never mind King Tut's Penis Rediscovered
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.

The formerly missing sex organ has been just another puzzle in the story of the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

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.


Researchers everywhere are swelling with pride at the news.

Click here for an artist's rendering of the recently found royal schlong.