King Tut's Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle

Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 22:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Possibly the first-known mummified erect penis, and other burial anomalies, were not accidents during embalming, but rather deliberate attempts to make the king appear as Osiris, the god of the underworld, in as literal a way as possible.

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