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 ...

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, announced by ...

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(CNN) – The world’s oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. Tattoos depicting a wild bull and a Barbary sheep were found on the upper arm of a male ...

The two well-preserved mummies from Egypt's Gebelein site – a male and a female — have been in the British Museum's collection for more than 100 years. But thanks to new technology, archaeologists ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered the world’s oldest tattoos on the arm of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum. The astonishing find – which rewrites the history of body art – ...

A Stanford archaeologist says they had religious and symbolic purposes. Stanford University archaeologist Anne Austin found intricately designed tattoos on the body of a 3,000-year-old woman from ...

The real estate on her body is up for debate – perhaps somewhere along the upper back, or near the collarbone – but the young Egyptian woman who visits Laurice Matta's shop knows what she wants: a ...

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Archaeologist Renee Freidman couldn't believe her eyes. She was pointing a digital infra-red camera at a 5,500-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum. "I said, 'Mmm, there's a smudge ...