May 04, 2006

All present and accounted for.

Posted by apostropher

Good news! King Tut still has his dangly bits.

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. 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.

You'd certainly hate to spend the afterlife without it.

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That's got to be embarassing for a pharaoh,though:

Nefertiti: Gee honey, where's your penis???
Tut: It's still there. See?
Nefertiti: Um, are you sure??
Tut: Of course! See, it's right THERE!
Nefertiti: Still not seeing it . . .
Tut: Dammit! Guards! Bring the Royal CT Machine!!

(NB: some names have been changed to protect the innocent)

Posted by: M/tch M/lls at May 4, 2006 10:12 AM
2

There are so many good band names in this article I can hardly stand it.

Posted by: Josh at May 8, 2006 01:48 PM
3

Is the comments section at Apostropher going to become all band names all the time?

Posted by: The Modesto Kid at May 8, 2006 03:47 PM
4

Is the comments section at Apostropher going to become all band names all the time?

Yes.

Posted by: M/tch M/lls at May 8, 2006 05:13 PM
5

Yes.

The midget version of which would be Maybe.

Posted by: apostropher at May 8, 2006 05:16 PM
6

You're commenting in the wrong thread too, apostropher.

*SIGH*

Good help is so hard to find.

Posted by: M/tch M/lls at May 8, 2006 05:30 PM
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