The history of tattooing in Africa dates back thousands of years. Until the recent discovery of Otzi the Iceman, the oldest known tattoos belonged to the mummy of Amunet, a priestess of the goddess Hathor somewhere between 2160 BC -1994 BC. With her simple parallel lines on...

Mentawai tattoo Mythology The Mentawai people are the indiginous inhabitants of the Mentawai Islands - a chain of about seventy islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia . In Mentawai mythology, a young boy transformed himself into the first Sago tree...

Irezumi - Japanese Tattooing The Japanese language the Japanese word '''irezumi''' (入れ墨, 入墨, 紋身, 刺花, 剳青, 黥 or 刺青) refers to the insertion of ink under the skin to leave a permanent, usually decorative mark, in other words, '''tattooing'''. The word can be written in...