El pene del rey Tutankamón fue encontrado gracias al apoyo logrado por la revisión de viejas fotografías tomadas a la momia del faraón, de tres mil años de antigüedad.
Al respecto, exclamó el investigador Zahi Hawass, jefe del Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades de Egipto “(el pene) siempre estuvo ahí. Lo encontré durante un escaneo de fotos el año pasado. Estaba perdido en la arena alrededor del cuerpo de la momia. El
miembro fue momificado.”
El órgano sexual perdido había formado parte de otro de los rompecabezas en la historia del faraón más conocido de Egipto antiguo.
Fotografiado intacto por Harry Burton (1879-1940) durante la excavación hecha a la tumba de Tutankamón, en 1922, el pene real había sido reportado como perdido en 1968, cuando científicos británicos del Ronald Harrison tomaron una serie de placas de Rayos-X a la momia del faraón. En esa ocasión abundaron las
especulaciones en torno a si el pene había sido vendido.
El Rey Tutankamón, nombre que significa “la imagen viviente de Amun”, ascendió al trono en 1333 a.C, a la edad de nueve años y reinó hasta poco antes de su muerte ocurrida en 1325, a.C.
Fuente: La Crónica, México, 4 de mayo de 2006
(2) King Tut's Penis Rediscovered
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery
News
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.
Photo: King Tut, Totally Intact. At first look, Harry Burton's picture of King Tut, above, may seem to indicate that the king could have been a little better endowed. But according to mummy experts, the pharaoh was normally built.
Pictures: Griffith Institute
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
At first look, Burton
Caretaker of Ötzi the Iceman, the world's oldest and best-preserved mummy, Egarter was
also a member of the Egyptian-led research team that examined King Tut's CT scan images.
"The pharaoh's sex organ is clearly visible in Burton
Ötzi's natural mummification and dehydration in an Alpine glacier produced a "collapse of the genitalia," which left the Iceman with an almost invisible member.
"He would not make a bella figura today," Egarter said.
According to the mummy expert, it is not possible to see if King Tut was circumcised or not.
Eugene Cruz-Uribe, professor of history at Northern Arizona University
"It was probably done for hygienic reasons, but some ritual issues may have occurred as well," Cruz-Uribe said.
Tut.ankh.Amun, "the living image of Amun," ascended the throne in 1333 B.C. at the age of nine, and reigned until his death in 1325 B.C., aged 19.
He married 13-year-old Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably his stepsister, on his accession to the throne. During their marriage, Ankhesenpaaten, who had changed her name to
Ankhesenamun, gave birth to two stillborn girls.
Fuente: Discovery Channel, 3 de mayo de 2006
Pictures: Griffith Institute | Contributors: Rossella Lorenzi
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