A woman has claimed a priest once performed an exorcism on her because of her “demonic” tattoos. Heavily tattooed DeeDee Villegas, 30, from Cebu, Philippines, first got into tattoo culture due ...

THE tombs of Ancient Egyptian high priests and sarcophagi dedicated to ... Archaeologists recently found ancient tattoos depicting animals and gods on several female Egyptian mummies.

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 view of statues inside the newly-discovered tomb of 'Wahtye', the Priest royal Purification during the reign of King Nefer Ir-Ka-Re, in Saqqara area, Giza, Egypt, Dec. 15, 2018. Khaled Elfiqi ...

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The priesthood helped preserve old traditions that underpinned Egyptian culture and its hierarchy helped keep order within society. Religion and priests were central to everyday life in ancient Egypt.

More information: Renée Friedman et al. Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos, Journal of Archaeological Science (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.

The civilization left very little record of the practice, and prior to the Deir el-Medina finds, researchers had only identified six other Egyptian mummies with tattoos. Per Nature’s Traci ...