The Tattooed Mummy It is common knowledge that thousands of years ago, some people used to wear tattoos, above all for religious or esoteric reasons. Those tattoos depicted mainly dots or lines. However, it has recently been discovered a 3,000 year-old mummy, whose tattoos were not dots or lines, but real objects. The body, belonging to a woman, wore as many as 30 tattoos on her neck, hips, arms, and so on. Among others, the objects depicted were cows, a monkey, flowers and an horus eye, which is thought to be a protection against evil. The latter was on her neck, shoulders and back, supposedly to give the impression that she was always watching her back. According to experts, this woman must have been a kind of priestess and her tattoos represented how powerful, religiously talking, she was.