Tattoos are older than pottery and possibly fire — but where did they really begin? From Ötzi the Iceman’s 61 therapeutic ...

Depending on your background, Egyptian hieroglyph tattoos may be personally meaningful. Once used by Ancient Egyptians as their writing system, the symbols can make for small, intricate tattoos. 8.

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 ...

These Egyptian tattoos, she says, were meant for show. "They're in parts of the body that would have been on daily display," she says, adding to what we already know about predynastic fashion.

Earliest Ancient Egyptian Tattoos Found on Mummies. The 5,000-year-old mummies have tattooed images of sheep, bulls, and mysterious lines. By Sarah Gibbens. March 1, 2018 ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, tattoos have been found on two 5,000-year-old bodies […] ...

Back in the early 1920s, archaeologists came across an ancient Egyptian town called Deir el-Medina near the Nile River. Previous research has shown that the town was active from 1550 B.C. to 1070 ...

At the New Kingdom site of Deir el-Medina (1550 B.C. to 1070 B.C.), researchers Anne Austin and Marie-Lys Arnette have discovered that tattoos on ancient flesh and tattooed figurines from the site ...