(Trustees of the British Museum)
Posted on 03/24/2014 12:58:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
CT scans and the use of infra-red technology on the naturally mummified remains of a woman who lived in in a Christian community in the Sudan 1,300 years ago have revealed a tattoo on her inner thigh. The tattoo is a symbol of the Archangel Michael, assembled from ancient Greek letters. “She is the first evidence of a tattoo from the period. This is a very rare find,” Daniel Antoin, curator of physical anthropology at the British Museum, told The Telegraph. The woman’s remains are part of a special exhibition of eight mummies and what technology has revealed about their lives.
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(Trustees of the British Museum)
Smart Aleck alert: It’s a tat of forerunners of the Crypts, bro.
A lot of people don’t realize that Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “To Helen” wasn’t about Helen of Troy, but rather about a woman he had dated, I think her last name was Back.
Wow, that’s some nice recursion! :’)
Henna nother thing...
Purely chronological, I was thinking “Thomas”.
Call A&E and get the guys from Bad Ink to clean it up
Ancient tramp stamp.
You’d kind of think the letters would relate to St. Peter, being they’re near heaven’s gate.
It’s a Greek symbol for the Archangel Michael, must have been a risky thing to wear in the open in the 7th c. :’)
Oh, duh, sorry. :’) I’d managed to push that old bat out of my mind.
A tattoo of Tattoo.
The first reference I came across stated that Helen was the mother of his boyhood chum.
While Poe was always a bit strange, having a crush on an older woman as a teenager isn't all that atypical, especially given Poe's chaotic upbringing.
Speaking of which, Bonnie Parker had her husband's first name, Roy, tattooed on her thigh.
I wonder what Clyde thought of it.?
To Hel en Back?
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