Researchers Find Intricate Tattoos on a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Woman . A Stanford archaeologist says they had religious and symbolic purposes. By ABC News. May 27, 2016, 12:30 PM.

Researchers found a tattoo on the upper arm of this Egyptian mummy. He is thought to have lived around 5,000 years ago and was between 18 and 21 years old when he died from a stab wound to the back.

World's oldest tattoo art found on Egyptian mummy that has been in British Museum for 100 years. Pictures of animals daubed onto man's arm 5,200 years discovered after new infrared examination.

Designs and placement of tattoos vary greatly on the 13 Egyptian mummies, which consist of 12 women and one man. A female mummy found in 1891 bore the first known tattoo from ancient Egypt.

At the New Kingdom site of Deir el-Medina (1550 B.C. to 1070 B.C.), researchers Anne Austin and Marie-Lys Arnette have discovered that tattoos on ancient flesh and tattooed figurines from the site ...

The first ever tattoo expo in Egypt and the Middle East has taken place in Cairo. The two-day exhibition and workshops brought together both local and international artists. Tattoos have generally ...

The world's oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. Latest U.S.

The first ever tattoo expo in Egypt and the Middle East has taken place in Cairo. The two-day exhibition and workshops brought together both local and international artists. Tattoos have generally ...

Researchers found a tattoo on the upper arm of this Egyptian mummy. He is thought to have lived around 5,000 years ago and was between 18 and 21 years old when he died from a stab wound to the back.