The Tattooed Mummy
It is common knowledge that thousands of years ago, mainly for religious or esoteric reasons, some people used to wear tattoos. Those tattoos were composed of dots or lines. However, a 3,000 year-old mummy has recently been discovered , 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 her religious power.