A closer look
Even in death, political propaganda requires you to strike a pose. When Howard Carter unwrapped King Tut's mummy, they discovered the boy king was embalmed with his penis firmly strapped at a 90-degree angle. This wasn't an accident. His father, Akhenaten, had previously forced a wildly unpopular monotheistic religion on Egypt. When Tut restored the old gods, the priests mummified him with an erection to explicitly emulate Osiris, the god of the underworld, sending a hardcore message to any lingering heretics.
