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03-03-2018, 02:42 AM
History of tattooing is rewritten after world's earliest figurative inkings are found on 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies in the British Museum
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The tattoos are of a wild bull (inset) and a Barbary sheep on the upper-arm of a male mummy (circled), and S-shaped motifs (centre right) on the upper-arm and shoulder (bottom right) of a female (top right). The find dates tattoos containing imagery rather than geometric patterns to 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers say the discovery 'transforms' our understanding of how people lived during this period.The tattoos may have denoted status, bravery and magical knowledge.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5448745/Worlds-oldest-tattoos-Egyptian-mummies.html
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The tattoos are of a wild bull (inset) and a Barbary sheep on the upper-arm of a male mummy (circled), and S-shaped motifs (centre right) on the upper-arm and shoulder (bottom right) of a female (top right). The find dates tattoos containing imagery rather than geometric patterns to 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers say the discovery 'transforms' our understanding of how people lived during this period.The tattoos may have denoted status, bravery and magical knowledge.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5448745/Worlds-oldest-tattoos-Egyptian-mummies.html