The oldest known tattoos belong to "Ötzi the Iceman," a 5,300-year-old mummy a pair of German hikers discovered in 1991, according to an article published last month in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Scholars have for years debated whether Ötzi was actually the oldest tattooed human, according to Smithsonian Science News, because scientists identified a tattoo of a pencil-thin mustache on a South American mummy from the Chinchurro region that they initially dated back to abo...
This 5,300-Year-Old Body Has The World's Oldest Known Tattoos
The Huffington Post - 21 Dec 2015 22:31
The oldest known tattoos belong to "Ötzi the Iceman," a 5,300-year-old mummy a pair of German hikers discovered in 1991, according to an article published last month in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Scholars have for years debated whether Ötzi was actually the oldest tattooed human, according to Smithsonian Science News, because scientists identified a tattoo of a pencil-thin mustache on a South American mummy from the Chinchurro region that they initially dated back to abo...
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