Tattooed mummies
Early tattooed finds. In 1972 eight mummies (dated A.D. 1475) were found in Qllakitsoq, Greenland - and five of the six adult women and two children had blue and black tattoo marks on their face's.
These tattooed marks consisting of lines arched over the eyes – dots on the foreheads and lines on the cheeks and beneath the chins - Three of the mummies and one of the children – thought to be the ancestors of the modern day Inuit (Eskimo) people can be seen in the ‘Greenland National Museum’ in Nuuk (Greenland’s capital).
Copyright...Paul Sayce.
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