![]() ![]() ![]() Travelers like Sir Martin Frobisher, William Dampier, and Captain James Cook brought home with them indigenous people from places they visited and they were often tattooed. When Christianity appeared, tattooing was considered a barbaric tradition and it slowly faded in Europe to return with transoceanic travels in 16th. Tattoos in Philippines were marks of the rank and accomplishments and people there believed that they have magical properties. ![]() They were also marks of a status in a society but also a punishment. So tattoos were known around the world very early in human history.Īncient Egypt and India used tattoos as methods of healing and as methods of religious worship. Mummy of Amunet from ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk, Siberia, (dating from the end of the 2nd millennium BC), that we found also have tattoos on them. ![]() We also know that Germanic and Celtic tribes also tattooed themselves. Oldest surviving tattoos are the ones found Ötzi the Iceman, mummy found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and dating from the 5th to 4th millennium BC. These tools are at least 12,000 years old and were used for tattooing. An evidence that prehistoric people knew and practiced tattooing are tools that were discovered in France, Portugal, and Scandinavia. ![]()
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