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04-01-2014, 06:16 PM
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A 1,300-year-old Sudanese mummy is found to have a Christian tattoo on her thigh

    By Megan Gannon and Live Science, Published: March 31
    Researchers at the British Museum in London have discovered a Christian tattoo on the mummified remains of a Sudanese woman who lived about 1,300 years ago.

    The well-preserved corpse was discovered during a recent archaeological excavation in northern Sudan along the banks of the Nile River. CT scans allowed researchers to peek under the woman’s skin and look at her bones, while infrared imaging showed her tattoo, high on her inner thigh, more clearly.

    The researchers have interpreted the tattoo as a monogram for the archangel Michael, stacking the ancient Greek letters spelling Michael (M-I-X-A-H-A), the Telegraph reported. Archaeologists have previously found the symbol emblazoned on church mosaics and artifacts, but never before on human flesh. [Photos: An Ancient Mummy’s Thigh Tattoo]

    Curator Daniel Antoine told the paper that the ancient body art is the first evidence of a tattoo from this period, calling it a “very rare find.”

    Antoine doesn’t know for sure what purpose the tattoo would have served, but speculated it might have been intended to protect the woman, the Telegraph reported.

    The mummy is set to go on display at the museum in May as part of an exhibition called “Ancient Lives: New Discoveries.”

    The mummy is not the first found, or even the oldest, to bear tattoos. It was common to get inked in many cultures around the world; mummies found in places including Peru, Egypt and the Philippines attest to a long and diverse history of body art.

    At 5,300 years old, Otzi the Iceman is Europe’s oldest mummy, and he may also hold the distinction of having the world’s oldest surviving tattoos. The mummy, found frozen in the Alps in 1991, has several tattoos, mostly in the form of small lines and crosses, etched in soot around his joints. The markings are suspected to have been less decorative than therapeutic, since Otzi is thought to have suffered from joint pain.

    Another notable frozen mummy discovered in the 1990s had tattoos. The 2,500-year-old body of a woman in her late 20s was found in 1993 in the permafrost of the Ukok Plateau in southwestern Siberia. She was tattooed with intricate animal motifs, abstract shapes and mythological creatures such as a deer with a griffon’s head, according to the Siberian Times. Other mummies of the Siberian Pazyryk culture are inked with similar designs and animals such as tigers, leopards and elk.
                  

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