King Tut's Missing Penis Not Really Missing Afterall.

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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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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