Most tattoos found on Egyptian mummies are patterns of dots or dashes but according to a report that published in Nature, tattoos representing actual objects on a 3000 year old mummified woman from Deir el Medina, the village where the artisans who worked on tombs in the Valley of Kings are thought to have lived. Using infrared lighting and an infrared sensor.
Newly reported tattoos are the first on a mummy from dynastic Egypt to show actual objects, among them lotus blossoms on the mummy's hips. cows on her arm and baboons on her neck. Just a few other ancient Egyptian mummies sport tattoos, and those are merely patterns of dots or dashes.
Especially prominent among the new tattoos are so-called wadjet eyes: possible symbols of protection against evil that adorn the mummy's neck. Shoulders and back.
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