The African Tattoos

Other than a 5000 year old man recently discovered in ice the first evidence of tattoos leads back to mummies in Egypt. The oldest tattoo was found on the mummy of Amunet, a priestess of the goddess Hathor during 2160-1994 BC. The mummy's simple tattoos were parallel lines on her arms, legs, and an elliptical pattern below her navel (left). Egyptologists