http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2165774,00.html
I'll probably still find the odd article from the few days when I was away, and this is one of them: "An ancient riddle of the sands has been solved by modern hospital technology. The mummified remains of King Tutankhamun have been found to be, let us say, intact. When a team from Liverpool University X-rayed the body in 1968, about 3,300 years after the 19-year-old king’s death, they could find no sign of his penis. There was speculation that it had been stolen and sold to a private collector. There are people who do collect such things. But Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, discovered the missing member using a hospital CT scanner during a recent study of the remains." The Times article for more.
This has been reported in a number of places, including The Guardian, including Tutankhamun Re-membered (sigh):
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1769834,00.html
I'll probably still find the odd article from the few days when I was away, and this is one of them: "An ancient riddle of the sands has been solved by modern hospital technology. The mummified remains of King Tutankhamun have been found to be, let us say, intact. When a team from Liverpool University X-rayed the body in 1968, about 3,300 years after the 19-year-old king’s death, they could find no sign of his penis. There was speculation that it had been stolen and sold to a private collector. There are people who do collect such things. But Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, discovered the missing member using a hospital CT scanner during a recent study of the remains." The Times article for more.
This has been reported in a number of places, including The Guardian, including Tutankhamun Re-membered (sigh):
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1769834,00.html
"It's an old story: archaeologist unearths Egyptian mummy, mummy's penis goes missing, new technology arrives and locates the errant organ, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities sits back with a satisfied smile on its face."
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