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Ancient Roman bone penis discovered in forgotten museum box

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Ancient Roman bone penis discovered in forgotten museum box
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Archaeologists in the Netherlands recently discovered a sizable conversation starter tucked away in a forgotten storage box. Amid a long overdue archive cataloguing project at Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen southeast of Amsterdam, researchers identified a roughly 7.8-inch-long penis carved from bone dating back 1,800–2,000 years to ancient Rome.



Romans typically weren’t too scandalized by nudity in artwork, including depictions of male genitalia. What’s more, they often saw penises as symbolicall

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