A few years ago the penis media went absolutely bananas over a report in Time magazine that the weenie from King Tut 's mummy was missing. The writer suggested that someone had removed the royal pecker because of its small size, not wanting to embarrass the Tutankhamen family.
An investigator writing in the New Scientist said: "A week or so ago I wrote a light-hearted blog post for New Scientist, looking into a theory that King Tutankhamen might have had a hormonal disorder that among other things causes underdeveloped genitalia.
Researchers analysing Tut's mummy had just ruled out the idea, citing the fact that Tut's penis is 'well-developed.' Intriguingly, however, their paper said that the penis is no longer attached to the rest of the mummy. On a whim I decided to double check that the organ is definitely Tut's and couldn't have been swapped by ancient embalmers to cover up his condition. Unlikely, perhaps, but surely a question that was begging to be asked.
Egyptologist John Taylor confirmed that the penis is indeed Tut's, as it was attached to the body when the mummy was first unwrapped. It must have broken off in modern times, probably during an early autopsy. So far so interesting - but it was clear that nothing untoward had occurred.
. . . (The wayward penis was reported missing in 1968, before it was discovered again during a CT scan in 2006, lying in the loose sand around the mummy's body.) The chest cavity was also damaged in modern times, probably by Howard Carter's team in 1922."
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