The
word tattoo is said to has two major derivations from
the Polynesian word “Tatau”
which means striking something and the Tahitian word “Tatau” which means “To
mark something”.
The History of Tattoos started over 5000 years ago, and is as diverse as people who wear them. Till this day people still have or are getting tattoos. Tattoos can be created with colours, beneath the skins surface, the first ever tattoos were by accident. Someone had a small wound and rubbed with their hand that were dirty with soot and ashes fro the fire. Once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark stayed permanently.
In 1991, a five thousand year old tattooed man ‘ötzi the ice man’ made the headlines of newspapers all over the world when his frozen body was discovered on a mountain between
Austria and Italy. This is the best preserved corpse of that period ever found. The skin bears 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimetres long above the kidneys and numerous parallel lines on the ankles. The position of the tattoo marks suggests that they were probably applied for therapeutic reasons (treatment of arthritis)
The History of Tattoos started over 5000 years ago, and is as diverse as people who wear them. Till this day people still have or are getting tattoos. Tattoos can be created with colours, beneath the skins surface, the first ever tattoos were by accident. Someone had a small wound and rubbed with their hand that were dirty with soot and ashes fro the fire. Once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark stayed permanently.
In 1991, a five thousand year old tattooed man ‘ötzi the ice man’ made the headlines of newspapers all over the world when his frozen body was discovered on a mountain between
Austria and Italy. This is the best preserved corpse of that period ever found. The skin bears 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimetres long above the kidneys and numerous parallel lines on the ankles. The position of the tattoo marks suggests that they were probably applied for therapeutic reasons (treatment of arthritis)
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Interesting information Tee.
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