US EditionWild Tattoos of 2,500-Year-Old Siberian ‘Ice Mummy’ Revealed for First Time
- A woman from the Pazyryk culture had a rooster tattoo on her left thumb and a moose scene on her left forearm.
- The intricate tattoos on her right forearm required high skill and multiple sessions to complete, according to scientists.
- Dr. Caspari noted that tattooing reflects the Pazyryk culture's priorities, which included herding animals and warfare.
- The quality of the tattoos suggests that tattooing was a skilled craft in the society.
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The University of Cambridge, on behalf of Antiquity magazine, announced the discovery of a Siberian frozen mummy with an age of approximately 2500 years, which has tattoos on its body. It belonged to a woman, who has drawings representing various animal figures: a deer, a rooster, several leopards and a mythological creature with hybrid features between lion and eagle. Apparently at least 50 years old, she was a member of the nomadic people Pazy…
For more than 2000 years, a mummified woman lay in Siberian permafrost. When researchers examined her skin by means of infrared light, they made a surprising discovery.
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DailyTruthReportWild tattoos of 2,500-year-old Siberian ‘ice mummy’ revealed for first time
The ornate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian ‘ice mummy’ have finally been revealed using advanced imaging technology, according to a report.
Archaeologists Reconstruct 2,500-Year-Old Tattoos from Mummy Found in Siberia
Photogrammetrically created 3D model of the female mummy from Pazyryk tomb 5. Credit: M. Vavulin / CC BY 4.0 A team of archaeologists has digitally reconstructed tattoos from a 2,500-year-old mummy discovered in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, shedding new light on Iron Age body art and the skill of ancient tattooists. The study, published in the journal Antiquity and led by Gino Caspari of Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, used high…
People had intricate, sharp and uniform tattoos as early as 2,500 years ago, high-resolution images of a Siberian “ice mummy” published in a scientific report reveal.
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