Tattoos .. Brief history.

Tattoo .. This word comes from Tahitian word 'tatau' which is a translation to 'mark something'. The history of tattoos goes back about 5,000 years ago. A tattoo is something that is scared for life, which is actually ink which goes inside the skin (a few layers beneath the surface of the skin). 

Some research was done a long time ago and the result was that the first tattoo was created after someone had a wound and this wound was rubbed over by a pair of dirty hands which probably were dirty with sooth and ashed from a fire, and .. once the would had been healed, the skin was marked permanently. 

 

back to the bronze age ...
Back in 1991, a frozen body was found and after studies it showed that he was 5,000 year old man. He have hit the headlines of newspapers all over the world, as the found frozen body who was found between Italy and Austria, had his body tattoos with a cross on his left knee and a couple of straight lines above his kidney and few lines on his ankle.

And something interesting in the Egyptian lands history of tattooing ...

Some written posts shows that some bodies were been discovered with tattoos. Back in 1891 there where archaeologists who discovered mummies who lived between 2160 & 1994 BC. A female body was discovered with dots all around her body, which were an abstract of geometric forms.
Some researches found out that Egyptians have spread tattooing around the world. This only took them till 2,000 BC till tattooing was spread trough SE Asia.

  

Today's tattoos are considered as art to some people and dirt to others, yet in my opinion tattoos have improves in artistic ways. Some are coloured and some are in black and grey shading. Today's tattoos vary even in their subject, not only in lines just like the first tattoos as in shapes but in something a person's thought in image to be inked trough. In these modern days there are even health and safety due to tattooing where the artist have to have his licence and a graduation, and every client have to be inked with new ink and a new needle as for health and safety, the hair/bench have even to be wrapped in cling film so blood will not mix with other people's. As one can notice, the artistic values in tattoos these days .. one can appreciate more the artistic works on one's body

  

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