
Scientists reconstruct the tattoos of a 2000-year-old Siberian ice mummy, now housed at the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, by using newly-available high-resolution near infrared photography, shedding light on the high-level of craftsmanship of Pazyryk tattoo artists [3456×6057]
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[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ice-mummy-tattoos](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ice-mummy-tattoos)
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/highresolution-nearinfrared-data-reveal-pazyryk-tattooing-methods/74D1A37DF0F0920F3BFCA82EA19DDF5B](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/highresolution-nearinfrared-data-reveal-pazyryk-tattooing-methods/74D1A37DF0F0920F3BFCA82EA19DDF5B)
Sick tiger!
I’ve seen people with the deer tattoo
Is that a griffon killing a deer?
These are amazing tats!
Badass.
Tiger tattoos really are classic.
They had chickens in Siberia 2000 years ago?!