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whereas the tattoos on the Egyptian mummies were on highly visible areas, designed to be shown off. Antoine says that this it what makes the find so special: It suggests that tattoos were an art form.

Now, the discovery of artistic tattoos on an two Egyptian mummies dating back 5,000 years is helping to rewrite history in a big way. The tattoos, which depict animals including a wild bull and ...

Ancient Egyptian women wore ornate back tattoos to protect them during and after childbirth, a new study suggests. The hypothesis follows examination of mummified remains of two women with tattoo ...