Ancient ink: Iceman Otzi has the world's oldest tattoos
The debate about the world’s oldest tattoos is over—they belong to Ötzi, the European Tyrolean Iceman who died and was buried beneath an Alpine glacier along the Austrian–Italian border around 3250 B.C. Ötzi had 61 tattoos across his body, including his left wrist, lower legs, lower back and torso.
8 Oldest Tattoos in the World
In 2015, scientists studying Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos declared that his were the oldest tattoos in the world. For many years, the tattoo on another mummy known as the “Chinchorro Man” was believed to be the oldest surviving tattoo, about 1,000 years older than Ötzi’s.
Ötzi the Iceman has the world’s oldest tattoos. How were they made? | CNN
2024年4月9日 · Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.
History of tattooing - Wikipedia
The oldest discovery of tattooed human skin to date is found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman, dating to between 3370 and 3100 BC. [3] Other tattooed mummies have been recovered from at least 49 archaeological sites, including locations in Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, Mongolia, western China, Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines and the Andes. [4]
The 61 Tattoos of Ötzi, the 5,300-Year-Old “Iceman”
2015年1月27日 · Scientists have mapped the body art of one of archeology’s biggest super stars in hopes to better understand the role tattoos played in early civilization
The world's oldest tattoos - ScienceDirect
2016年2月1日 · Popular texts and online sources typically identify the oldest tattoos as belonging to the naturally-mummified European body known as Ötzi. More scholarly sources have alternatively proposed that the oldest tattoos are found on mummified remains from the Chinchorro culture of South America.
The ancient history of tattoos—revealed by inked-up mummies
2023年6月5日 · Humans have been getting ink for at least 5,200 years. Here are some of the most intriguing ancient tattoos, from cultic symbols to complex horse motifs.
Archaeologists have explanation for Otzi the Iceman's tattoos
2024年4月9日 · In a February 2016 study, Deter-Wolf compiled a database of dozens of examples of ancient tattoos, including body art found on Egyptian, Chinese and Incan mummified remains, that pinpointed...
'Oldest tattoo' found on 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies - BBC
Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt.
Oldest figurative tattoos - Guinness World Records
c. 3351-3017 BCE BC. The oldest figurative tattoos are a Barbary sheep, a wild bull, a series of S-shapes and an L-shaped motif, found on the skin of two naturally mummified individuals dating to 3351–3017 BCE.