In the ancient world, many people have tattoos. At ETCI's mummy, an ancient person overlapped in the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, found 61 tattoos stuffed on the wrist, leg, back and body. Not to mention the mummy pair from prehistoric Egypt, the body is decorated with decorative drawings. History of information portal.com speakWhy are the people of stuffed tattoos in the past.
Therefore, in ancient Greece, tattoos are treated quite negatively, but this does not prevent the Greeks decorating themselves. According to contemporaries, Ptolemy IV, the Greek ruler Macedonia of Egypt, filled themselves with ivy leaves to honor the god Dionysus. And about 450 BC, Greek historian Herodotus wrote that for the Scythians and Thracians, the tattoo was a mark of the aristocracy.
Herodotus talked about a tyrant in the territory of modern Türkiye, who is said to have tattoo a secret message on the head of a slave – can read it just by holding a slave on the head. Later, centuries later, ancient Romans called the residents of the current Scottish people or were drawn, for their tattoos. And in the Middle Ages, a cross of the Cross tattooed the crosses of their hands and palms.
Double neck tattoos are sometimes very high quality. The scientific work, recently published in PNAS magazine, has studied 100 mummies of the Chancake civilization, formed about 900 our era on the territory of modern Peru (later it was absorbed by the Inca empire). Extremely detailed tattoos have been found on some mummies: the thickness of some lines in the drawing is 0.1-0.2 mm. Subtler is better than modern needles for tattoo machine.
According to Michael Pittman, an ancient biologist and co -author of the scientific work, the mummy tattoo has probably been made of cactus needles or animal bones. Some drawings are geometric shapes, such as interwoven triangle and rhombus, while other images – patterns. On the chest of one of the mummies in general, something like a monkey has been filled.
For example, if you make a complex tattoo on the forearm, then that person will have to sit at the meeting for a long time. And the tattoo, who worked with her, did not doubt what was a true master of his craft. Chancai tattoos include individual elements representing the values of their carriers – just like with modern tattoos.
Although some drawings on the mummy can be seen with naked appearance, others must be studied using infrared scanning. Pittman and his colleagues went further. They forced the mummified skin to glow in the darkness due to lasers, helping to level the effects of fading and consider the tattoo in detail.
Why did the Prime Minister make a tattoo? It's hard to say. Some ancient tattoos may be the same therapeutic practice as acupuncture. Others serve as a symbol of status or amulet, and sometimes – the elements of religious rituals. The third sign belongs to certain clans or groups, rewards for achievements in the battle or self -expression forms.
Tattoos are also used for more gloomy purposes. The ancient Greeks and the Romans marked the tattoo of criminals and slaves. In some cases, the Japanese government stuffed a line along the forehead for the first violation of the law, the arch for the second line, rushing in – for the third time. The three lines made together have formed a symbol that means a Islamic dog. Some societies are generally banned from tattoos: for example, this is what the Roman Emperor Konstantin did.