It seems that right now is far from the first time for humans to have tattoos come into fashion, it’s just taken a little bit time to come back around. Like, 2,5o0 years or so.
Daily Mail writes:
The astonishing 2,500 year old tattoos of a Siberian princess, and how they reveal little has changed in the way we decorate our bodies
- Incredibly well preserved body found high in the Altai mountains, with two warriors buried close by for protections and six horses to ease the journey into the next life
- Tattoos on left shoulder, including a deer with a griffon’s beak and a Capricorn’s antlers.
The intricate patterns of 2,500-year-old tattoos – some from the body of a Siberian ‘princess’ preserved in the permafrost – have been revealed in Russia.
The remarkable body art includes mythological creatures and experts say the elaborate drawings were a sign of age and status for the ancient nomadic Pazyryk people, described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus.
But scientist Natalia Polosmak – who discovered the remains of ice-clad ‘Princess Ukok’ high in the Altai Mountains – is also struck about how little has changed in more than two millennia.
‘I think we have not moved far from Pazyryks in how the tattoos are made,’ she told the Siberian Times ( SiberianTimes.com ).
‘It is still about a craving to make yourself as beautiful as possible.’
‘For example, about the British.
‘A lot of them go on holiday to Greece, and when I’ve been there I heard how Greeks were smiling and saying that a British man’s age can be easily understood by the number of tattoos on his body.
‘I’m talking the working class now.
‘And I noticed it, too.
‘The older a person, the more tattoos are on his body.’
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