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Doodle inspired by siberian ice mummy tattoos
Tattoos on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy
New research into a Central Asian ice mummy has revealed the full details of an Iron Age woman's many intricate tattoos.
A technique that can be used on mummies from every culture.
not me watching one of the latest Miniminuteman videos, which was about Mummy Tattoos, commenting to ask how to learn more about mummy tattoos as an anthro/arch major and then looking up more videos only to find that I've watched about four without remembering any of it?? Because apparently I watched like 25 minutes of a 32 minute long video about ancient Japanese tattooing culture and how it relates to the Yakuza??? I also apparently began somebody's TED talk about this???? what the fuck?!
I'm tagging Milo's video and the Yakuza video below if anyone else is intersted!
artist rendition of the tattoos found on a Scythian chieftan from the Pazyryk culture. He was about 50-60 when he died, and was buried just outside of Kiev.
My new pin from @pangur-and-grim came yesterday! It looks so nice hanging out on my work lanyard.
Assuming they use cephalopod ink of some sort to tattoo air nomads, Toph would actually be able to ‘see’ Aang’s tattoos, if only very faintly. Squid ink contains small amounts of metals such as copper, lead and cadmium.
Oh that would be super neat! I’ve got no clue what ink the air nomads used, I honestly haven’t thought too much about it. But if Toph were able to detect them slightly, that would be dope!!
I was curious and did some research on ancient ink components: soot, charcoal, bronze, blood, breast milk, vinegar, Woad (a plant that makes blue dye), pine bark, sesame oil, etc. Inks today are mostly made of ethanol (or other sanitizing liquid) + different metals to get different colors! Tattooing history is actually fascinating!
Thinking more on it I bet Toph would be able to detect the metal elements in tattoos! That would be super cool. And now I’m thinking about Toph insisting she wants tattoos too 🤣
continuation of my new tat!!