Posted on 05/03/2006 11:10:56 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
There once was a king called Tut,
Who lost both his right and left nut.
When he died, his wife Venus
Placed a knife to his penis
Satisfied, rolled him back on his butt.
Born in Babylon-a
Moved to Arizona
They thought they lost his bone-a
KING TUT!
This, the latest addition to my list of "Words I Never Thought I'd See Together."
[rimshot!]
In a related story, mummy expert Bob Brier claimed that the pharaoh Tutankhamen died due to a circumcision mishap...
"If you want this, it'll either be in my purse, or the refrigerator."
Now, darn it, this is a serious topic, so quit foolin' around, the bunch of ya.
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/moredetails.aspx?showBleed=false&ProductNo=22432537&pr=F
Thank you! I'm here all week... Try the veal.
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Reason | May 5, 2006 | Ronald Bailey
Posted on 05/07/2006 3:09:06 AM EDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1628091/posts
A private dick?
Not required. It turned up because a contemporary mummy, a former female, was mummified pointing and laughing at it.
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