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At the site, researchers discovered evidence of tattoos on the bodies of Egyptian mummies. The tattoos were likely associated with Bes, the ancient Egyptian god who protected women and children ...

Preserved in amazing detail on her mummified torso, the surviving images represent the only known examples of tattoos found on Egyptian mummies showing recognizable pictures, rather than abstract ...

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 ...

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 tattoos were an art form.

Yet, tattoos have a long, quiet history here. For generations, female members of the country's Bedouin tribes traditionally inked beauty spots on their faces. Today, some Egyptian women opt to ...

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 ...

Until the Deir el-Medina discoveries, tattoos had been found on a total of only six mummified individuals over more than a century of research at ancient Egyptian sites. But infrared photos ...

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.