Stanford University archaeologist Anne Austin found intricately designed tattoos on the body of a 3,000-year-old woman from Ancient Egypt. Courtesy Anne Austin, Stanford University &#151 ...

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It was a surprise to find the tattoos on a male mummy. Friedman says other, later female Egyptian mummies with tattoos had been discovered, and a set of figurines with drawings on them did suggest ...

Wasim Razzouk, a twenty seventh generation tattoo artist in Jerusalem, continues his family’s sacred tradition of tattooing ...

Five centuries ago, Wassim Razzouk's family moved from Egypt to Jerusalem for pilgrimage, staying to tattoo visitors to the city who came after them. The Razzouks are Coptic Christians ...

Photograph by ROBERT CLARK, Nat Geo Image Collection The next earliest evidence of tattoos comes from mummies thought to have died between 3351 and 3017 B.C. in ancient Egypt. Discovered in 1900 ...

A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 A.D. has been scanned and stripped to reveal a tattoo on her thigh that displays the name of the biblical archangel Michael. The discovery ...

Some ancient Egyptian mothers got tattoos that were likely meant to protect them during childbirth and during the postpartum period, an analysis of their mummies reveals. When you purchase through ...

As the owner of one of Egypt's very few tattoo parlours, she has seen the steady evolution of what was once a nearly non-existent subculture in the Middle East. Even as their country faces a ...

In Ancient Egypt, tattoos, including tramp stamps which were allegedly used as maternal magic, were applied as far back as 1550 BCE. In East Asia evidence of the art of tattooing reaches back to ...

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