These Egyptian tattoos, she says, were meant for show. "They're in parts of the body that would have been on daily display," she says, adding to what we already know about predynastic fashion.

About 60 drawings and hieroglyphic inscriptions, dating back around 5,000 years, have been discovered at a site called Wadi Ameyra in Egypt’s Sinai Desert ...

The world's oldest figural tattoos have been discovered on two Egyptian mummies in the British Museum, The Guardian reported. Drawings of a Barbary sheep, wild bull and S-shaped motifs were ...